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(verb) : rĕ-căno, ĕre, (Plinian).
* To sing back, i. e. call back by singing: ut illa (perdix) recanat revocetque (marem),Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 102: Phoebus ... recanente lyrā fautor,Verg. Cul. 13.—*
* To charm back again, to undo a charm: pauci etiam credunt serpentes ipsas recanere,Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 19 (perh. also id. 29, 4, 21, § 69, where Jan. reads praecanere. The form recĭno has another signif., v. recino).
* To sing back, i. e. call back by singing: ut illa (perdix) recanat revocetque (marem),Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 102: Phoebus ... recanente lyrā fautor,Verg. Cul. 13.—*
* To charm back again, to undo a charm: pauci etiam credunt serpentes ipsas recanere,Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 19 (perh. also id. 29, 4, 21, § 69, where Jan. reads praecanere. The form recĭno has another signif., v. recino).
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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