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pollingo

pollingo, nxi, nctum, 3, v. a.,
  • to wash a corpse, and prepare it for the funeral pile (ante- and post-class.): pollingo, περιστέλλω νεκρόν, σιροπλόκω, ταριχεύω, ἐνταφιάζω, Gloss. Philox.: quia mihi pollinctor dixit, qui eum pollinxerat, Plaut. Poen. prol. 63; Ap. Flor. p. 362, 27: figmenta hominum mortuorum curate pollincta, Amm.19, 1, 10.—Transf., of an old man near his grave: pollinctum corpus, Val. Max. 7, 7, 4; cf.: voluptas fucata aut medicamentis pollincta, Sen. Vit. Beat. 7, 2.

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