Lewis Short
(verb) : rĕ-cŏlo, cŏlŭi, cuitum, 3
* To till or cultivate again, to work anew.
* 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.— *
* To inhabit again, to revisit a place: nemo libenter recolit, qui laesit locum,Phaedr. 1, 18, 1.
* Trop., to exercise or practise again, to resume, renew.
* 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.
* In partic.
* 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.
* To contemplate, survey: inclusas animas ... Lustrabat studio recolens omnemque suorum Forte recensebat numerum, * Verg. A. 6, 681.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary