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... litore tenus adcrescere aut resorberi, sed influere penitus atque...

L. & S.: rĕ-sorbĕo , ēre, suck back, swallow again (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): “quaeque vomit fluctus totidem totidemque resorbet,” Ov. H. 12, 125; so, “saxa (pontus),” Verg. A. 11, 627 Wagn.: “mare in se resorberi videbamus,” Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 9: “mare accrescere aut resorberi,” Tac. Agr. 10 fin.