recingo

rĕ-cingo, no perf., ctum, 3, v. a., to ungird, loose that which was girded (a poet. word of the Aug. period;

esp. freq. in Ov.): tunicas,

Ov. M. 1, 398; id. Am. 1, 5, 9; 3, 1, 51:

vestes,

id. M. 7, 182; * Verg. A. 4, 518:

cum veste recinctā,

Val. Fl. 8, 115:

zonam,

Ov. H. 2, 116.—

Mid.: neque eo contenta recingor,

I ungird myself, Ov. M. 5, 593; and, in poet. construction, with acc.:

sumptum recingitur anguem,

divests herself of the snake which she had girt around her, Ov. M. 4, 510; cf.:

ferrum recingi,

Stat. S. 1, 4, 75.—Of persons:

mulier recincta,

Plin. 17, 28, 47, § 266.—

II.

To gird again:

Serenianus recinctus est ut Pannonius,

Amm. 26, 5, 3.