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repuerasco

repuerasco, to become a boy again, renew childhood, frolic childishly

rĕ-pŭĕrasco, ĕre, v. inch. n., to become a boy again.
  • I Lit.: quia repuerascis, Novat. ap. Non. 165, 25 (Com. Rel. p. 215 Rib.): si quis mihi deus largiatur, ut ex hac aetate repuerascam et in cunis vagiam, Cic. Sen. 23, 83.—
  • II Trop., to become childish; also, to play or frolic like a child, Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 25 (296): Laelium semper fere cum Scipione solitum rusticari, eosque incredibiliter repuerascere esse solitos, Cic. de Or. 2, 6, 22.

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