succerno

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

suc-cerno (subc-), crēvi, crētum, 3, v. a., to sift through, to sift.

I Lit.: vinaceos cottidie recentes succernito, Cato R. R. 25; 10, 5; 18, 7; 151, 3; Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 115; Vitr. 2, 5.—Comically: iste gradus succretu'st cribro pollinario, Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 10.—*

II Transf., to shake up , agitate , Sev. Aetna, 492.