remordeo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

rĕ-mordeo, no perf., rsum, 2, v. a.,

to bite again; mostly poet., and only in the trop. sense; to vex , torment , disturb : me remorsurum petis, Hor. Epod. 6, 4: praeteritis male admissis peccata remordent, Lucr. 3, 827: animus se forte remordet, id. 4, 1135: quando haec te cura remordet, Verg. A. 1, 261; cf. absol. : si juris materni cura remordet, id. ib. 7, 402: vitia castigata remordent, Juy. 2. 25.—In prose: sin tandem libertatis desiderium remordet animos, Liv. 8, 4, 3.

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