I.to cook or boil over again.
I. Lit.: Peliam, * Cic. Sen. 23, 83; cf. “of the same: fessos aetate parentes,” Val. Fl. 6, 444: “lana recocta (in dyeing),” Sen. Ep. 71, 31: “ceram (in the sun),” Plin. 21, 14, 49, § 84: “Velabrensi massa recocta fumo,” Mart. 11, 53, 10.—
B. Transf., to prepare again by fire; to burn, melt, cast, or forge again, Plin. 16, 6, 8, § 23: “re coquunt patrios fornacibus enses,” Verg. A. 7, 636; so, “electrum aurumque,” id. ib. 8, 624: “spicula,” Luc. 7, 148: “ferrum,” Flor. 3, 20, 6.—
II. Trop.: (Cicero se) Apollonio Moloni formandum ac velut recoquendum dedit, to recast, remould, * Quint. 12, 6, 7: Fuffitio seni recocto, youthful, hale, lusty (alluding to the fable of Pelias), Cat. 54, 5; so, “scriba,” Hor. S. 2, 5, 55: “anus vino,” Petr. Fragm. in Diom. p. 517 P.
