(verb) : rĕ-fŏvĕo, fōvi, fōtum, 2
* To warm or cherish again; to refresh, restore, revive, etc. (not ante-Aug.).
* Lit.: corpus refoventque foventque,Ov. M. 8, 536: pectora,id. H. 11, 58; cf.: artus admoto igne,Curt. 8, 4, 15: astrictos artus complexibus,Luc. 8, 67 Cort.: oculos,Plin. 8, 27, 41, § 97: torpentia membra quiete,Sil. 3, 637: ignes tepidos,Ov. Am. 2, 19, 15: vires mollitia caeli,Tac. A. 12, 66; cf. Vell. 2, 113, 2; 1, 15, 1; Stat. Th. 6, 521; refotus calidis piscinis,Suet. Ner. 27: refoveatur stercoratione terra,Col. 2, 1, 7: a lassitudine viae sedilibus refotae (sorores). App. M. 5, p. 165, 23: lectulo,id. ib. 5, p. 160, 1; cf.: lassitudinem poculis,id. ib. 2, p. 122.
* Of inanimate subjects: leni afflatu simulacra refovente,animating,Plin. 36, 15, 22, § 98.
* Trop.: studia prope exstincta refoventur,Plin. Ep. 3, 18, 5; cf.: disciplinam castrorum lapsam exstinctamque refovisti,id. Pan. 18, 1; 69, 5: longā pace cuncta refovente,Curt. 4, 4, 21: provincias internis certaminibus fessas,Tac. A. 2, 54; cf.: reliquias partium in Africā,Suet. Caes. 35; Tac. A. 15, 36; cf. id. H. 1, 31 fin.; 3, 58; id. A. 2, 47 fin.: calefacto simul refotoque animo,Gell. 15, 2, 8: solaciis,to comfort,Spart. Hadr. 8.

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