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rĕ-mulcĕo, si, sum, 2, v. a., to stroke back (poet. and rare).

  1. I. Lit.: caudam, i. e. to droop, Verg. A. 11, 812: aures, to stroke gently, App. M. 1, p. 103, 8: crines, id. Flor. 2, p. 350, 39.
  2. II. Trop., to soothe: minas stimulataque corda remulce, Stat. Th. 8, 93: animos dulcissimis modulis, to delight, App. M. 5, p. 165, 8.

rĕmulco, āre, v. remulcum.

rĕmulcum (rymulcum, acc. to the Gr., Amm. 18, 5, 6), i (for the most part only in abl.), n. [ῤυμουλκέω], nautical t. t., a tow-rope, or any other contrivance for towing: remulcum funis, quo deligata navis magnā trahitur vice remi, Isid. Orig. 19, 4, 8: remulco est, cum scaphae remis navis magna trahitur, Fest. p. 279 Müll.: navem remulco abstraxit, Caes. B. C. 2, 23 fin.: submersam navim remulco adduxit, id. ib. 3, 40: naves onerarias remulco Alexandriam deducit, Auct. B. Alex. 11 fin.: navem remulco trahere, Liv. 25, 30; 32, 16.
Here prob. belongs the fragment of Sisenna: in altum remulco trahit, Sisenn. ap. Non. 57, 29 (where Nonius erroneously assumes a verb, remulco, āre; cf. supra, the article of Festus, where also remulco forms the heading); Valgius ap. Isid. l. l.; Aus. Idyll. 10, 41; id. Ep. 2, 9; Paul. Nol. Ep. 49.
Prov.: non contis nec rymulco, ut aiunt, sed velificatione plenā in rempublicam ferebantur, Amm. 18, 5, 6.