verb
rĕ-pŭĕrasco
Meaning
- to become a boy again.
rĕ-pŭĕrasco, ĕre,
I. 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:
Laelium semper fere cum Scipione solitum rusticari, eosque incredibiliter repuerascere esse solitos, Cic. de Or. 2, 6, 22.