recreate

RECREATE

recreare relaxare: to recreate one’s self vires reficere; requiem quaerere: respirare (to take breath again Cic. Fin. 4 23 64): se remittere: remitti: animum remittere or relaxare: requiescere curamque animi remittere (after long-continued mental exertion): se reficere: se recreare: refici: recreari (to get fresh strength after labor an illness etc.).

recreate:

I. To reproduce:

1. recreo, 1: to re-create its light (of the sun), r. lumen, Lucr. 5, 758 there man brings up and re-creates men, illic homo homines educat, recreatque, Pl. Men. 1, 1, 23: useful for re-creating flesh on bones, ad ... rasis ossibus carnes recreandas, Plin. H. N. 34, 15, 46 § 155.

2. nŏvo, 1: this ... re-creates wearied limbs, haec ... fessa membra novat, Ov. Her. 4, 90.

II. To refresh:

1. recreo, 1: I sustain and r. myself with literature, literis sustentor et recreor, Cic. Att. 4, 10.

2. rĕmitto, mīsi, missum, 3: music r.s the spirits, remittit animos, id. Fin. 2, 15, 38.

3. āvŏco, 1: the moderate proportion which may r. rather than occupy, qui avocet magis quam distringat, Plin. Ep. 1, 24: v. REFRESH, RELIEVE.