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1. rĕ-cŏlo, cŏlŭi, cuitum, 3, v. a., to till or cultivate again, to work anew.

  1. I. Lit.: desertam terram, Liv. 27, 5: spargere humo post tempora longa recultae, Ov. M. 5, 647: agros, Val. Fl. 7, 68: metalla intermissa, Liv. 39, 24.
    1. * B. To inhabit again, to revisit a place: nemo libenter recolit, qui laesit locum, Phaedr. 1, 18, 1.
  2. II. Trop., to exercise or practise again, to resume, renew.
    1. A. In gen.: certum est, antiqua recolam et servibo mihi, I’ll drive the old trade again, i. e. will lead again my old way of life, Plaut. Merc. 3, 2, 3: eas artes, quibus a pueris dediti fuimus, Cic. de Or. 1, 1, 2; cf.: ad haec studia recolenda, id. Arch. 6, 13: dignitatem, id. ap. Non. 439, 2: ingenia nostra meditatione, Plin. Ep. 7, 9, 7: avitum decus, Tac. A. 3, 72: Galbae imagines, to set up again, id. H. 3, 7: adulescentulos paternis sacerdotiis, to reinvest, id. ib. 1, 77: diem dapibus, to celebrate, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 262.
    2. B. In partic.
      1. 1. To think over, recall to mind, reflect upon, consider: haec ego quom ago Cum meo animo et recolo, Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 25; cf.: quae si tecum ipse recolis, Cic. Phil. 13, 20, 45: sua facta pectore, Cat. 63, 45: hoc tua, nam recolo, quondam germana canebat, Ov. H. 5, 113; Hilar. Trin. 1, 17: haec in corde, Vulg. Thren. 3, 21.
      2. 2. To contemplate, survey: inclusas animas … Lustrabat studio recolens omnemque suorum Forte recensebat numerum, * Verg. A. 6, 681.