(verb) : per-cōlo, āvi, ātum, 1
* To strain through, to filter, percolate.
* Lit.: tum vinum percolato, polentam abicito,Cato, R. R. 108; Cels. 6, 9; Col. 12, 41, 2; Plin. 31, 6, 37, § 70.
* Transf., in gen., to cause to pass through: umor per terras percolatur,passes through,Lucr. 2, 475: cibos et potiones, to pass through one, i. e. to swallow and digest, Sen. Q. N. praef. § 3: terra bibula crebros imbros percolat atque transmittit,Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 110.

(verb) : per-cŏlo, cŏlŭi, cultum, 3
* Lit.
* To cultivate, of the soil; hence, to inhabit: Eleusiniam glebam,App. M. 11, 2, p. 257.
* Transf.
* To cleanse: os curā,App. Mag. 8.
* To deck, beautify, adorn: aliquid eloquentiā,Tac. Agr. 10.
* To honor greatly, to revere, reverence: si patrem percoles,Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 4: conjugem liberosque,Tac. A. 4, 68: multos praefecturis et procurationibus, plerosque senatorii ordinis honore,id. H. 2, 82: deos,Sol. 22, 7: dei numen in uxoris laboribus percolens,App. M. 6, 15, p. 179: Aegyptii cerimoniis me propriis percolentes appellant Isidem,id. ib. 11. 5, p. 259: initia Cereris,celebrate,Aur. Vict. Caes. 14, 4: funus,id. ib. 20, 30.
* To persecute, pursue, cultivate: vestras disciplinas studiosius,App. Flor. 4, 18, p. 361: cumulata habent quae sedulo percolunt,id. Deo Soc. 22, p. 54.—Hence, percultus, a, um, P. a.: femina perculta,highly adorned,Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 22.

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