I.to warm or cherish again; to refresh, restore, revive, etc. (not ante-Aug.).
I. Lit.: “corpus refoventque foventque,” Ov. M. 8, 536: “pectora,” id. H. 11, 58; cf.: “artus admoto igne,” Curt. 8, 4, 15: “astrictos artus complexibus,” Luc. 8, 67 Cort.: “oculos,” Plin. 8, 27, 41, § 97: “torpentia membra quiete,” Sil. 3, 637: “ignes tepidos,” Ov. Am. 2, 19, 15: “vires mollitia caeli,” Tac. A. 12, 66; cf. Vell. 2, 113, 2; 1, 15, 1; Stat. Th. 6, 521; “refotus calidis piscinis,” Suet. Ner. 27: “refoveatur stercoratione terra,” Col. 2, 1, 7: a lassitudine viae sedilibus refotae (sorores). App. M. 5, p. 165, 23: “lectulo,” id. ib. 5, p. 160, 1; cf.: “lassitudinem poculis,” id. ib. 2, p. 122.—
b. Of inanimate subjects: “leni afflatu simulacra refovente,” animating, Plin. 36, 15, 22, § 98. —
II. Trop.: “studia prope exstincta refoventur,” Plin. Ep. 3, 18, 5; cf.: “disciplinam castrorum lapsam exstinctamque refovisti,” id. Pan. 18, 1; 69, 5: “longā pace cuncta refovente,” Curt. 4, 4, 21: “provincias internis certaminibus fessas,” Tac. A. 2, 54; cf.: “reliquias partium in Africā,” Suet. Caes. 35; Tac. A. 15, 36; cf. id. H. 1, 31 fin.; 3, 58; id. A. 2, 47 fin.: “calefacto simul refotoque animo,” Gell. 15, 2, 8: “solaciis,” to comfort, Spart. Hadr. 8.
