con-tingo (
con-tingo (-tinguo), ĕre, v. a., to wet, moisten (perh. only in Lucr. and Verg.). Lit.: oras, pocula circum mellis liquore, Lucr. 1, 938: semina rerum colore, id. 2, 755: lac parco sale, to sprinkle, Verg. G. 3, 403: tonsum corpus amurcā, id. ib. 3, 448. — Trop.: musaeo contingens cuncta lepore, Lucr. 1, 934 and 947; 4, 9 and 22.
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con-tingo (-tinguo), ĕre, v. a., to wet, moisten (perh. only in Lucr. and Verg.). Lit.: oras, pocula circum mellis liquore, Lucr. 1, 938: semina rerum colore, id. 2, 755: lac parco sale, to sprinkle, Verg. G. 3, 403: tonsum corpus amurcā, id. ib. 3, 448. — Trop.: musaeo contingens cuncta lepore, Lucr. 1, 934 and 947; 4, 9 and 22.
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