(verb) : pollingo, nxi, nctum, 3
* To wash a corpse, and prepare it for the funeral pile (ante- and post-class.): pollingo, περιστέλλω νεκρόν, σιροπλόκω, ταριχεύω, ἐνταφιάζω, Gloss. Philox.: quia mihi pollinctor dixit, qui eum pollinxerat,Plaut. Poen. prol. 63; App. Flor. p. 362, 27: figmenta hominum mortuorum curate pollincta,Amm. 19, 1, 10.—Transf., of an old man near his grave: pollinctum corpus,Val. Max. 7, 7, 4; cf.: voluptas fucata aut medicamentis pollincta,Sen. Vit. Beat. 7, 2.

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