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                    "description": "(adj.adv.) : lēnis, e, adj.cf. lentus\n* Soft, smooth, mild, gentle, easy, calm.\n* Lit.: sensus judicat dulce, amarum: lene, asperum,Cic. Fin. 2, 12, 36; id. N. D. 2, 58, 146: vehemens fricatio spissat, lenis mollit,Plin. 28, 4, 14, § 53: vinum hoc asperum est: aliud lenius, sodes, vide,Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 48: lenibus venenis uti,Cic. Att. 2, 21, 1: lenissimus ventus,id. ib. 7, 2, 1: motus laterum,moderate, gentle,Quint. 11, 3, 92; 161: leni igni sucus coquitur,Plin. 21, 18, 73, § 122.—Of the Nile: postea lenis,Plin. 5, 9, 10, § 54: tormentum,Hor. C. 3, 21, 13: volatus,Ov. M. 12, 527: somnus,Hor. C. 3, 1, 21.—Of heights, gently or gradually rising: clivus,Liv. 6, 24; cf. id. 29, 33.— Comp.: jugum paulo leniore fastigio ab ea parte quae, etc.,Caes. B. C. 2, 24; so fastigium,Plin. 16, 36, 64, § 158.\n* Trop., gentle, moderate, mild, lenient, calm.\n* In gen.: servitutem lenem reddere,Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 5: Ecce me. Opusne (erit tibi) leni? leniorem dices quam mutumst mare,id. Mil. 3, 1, 70: homo lenis et facilis,Cic. Fam. 5, 2, 9: populus Romanus in hostes lenissimus,id. Rosc. Am. 53, 154: lenissima verba,id. Fam. 5, 15, 1: lenissimum ingenium,id. Brut. 56, 204: lenior sententia,  Caes. B. C. 1, 2: lene consilium dare, Hor C. 3, 4, 41.\n* With inf.: non lenis precibus fata recludere Mercurius,Hor. C. 1, 24, 17.\n* In partic.\n* Of speech, mild, gentle: oratio placida, submissa, lenis,Cic. de Or. 2, 43, 183: lenis et fluens contextus orationis,Quint. 9, 4, 127: leniores epilogi,id. 6, 1, 50.\n* Lēne (only poet.), softly, mildly, gently: sectus humum rivo, lene sonantis aquae,Ov. F. 2, 704: clivi lene jacentes,gently rising,Calp. Ecl. 7, 25: lene fluens fons,Nemes. Ecl. 4, 47: lene Notus spirat,Avien. Descript. Orb. 857.\n* Lēnĭter (class.), softly, mildly, gently.\n* Lit.: leniter arridens,Cic. Rep. 6, 12, 12: leniter atterens Caudam,Hor. C. 2, 19, 30: ventus leniter pluvius,Plin. 18, 34, 77, § 337: leniter ire per excubias custodum,Ov. Am. 1, 6, 7: collis leniter acclivis, gradually or gently rising, Caes. B. G. 7, 19; so, editus collis,Liv. 2, 50.—Comp.: torrens lenius decurrit,Ov. M. 3, 568.\n* Trop., quietly, calmly, gently, moderately, leniently.\n* In gen.: tentem leniter an minaciter?Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 20: petere quippiam ab aliquo dictis bonis,id. Am. prol. 25: ferre aliquid,Ov. H. 5, 7: traducere aevum,Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 97: nimis leniter latam suam injuriam ratus,Liv. 29, 9 (al. leviter).—Sup.: lenissime sentire,Cic. Fam. 5, 2, 9.\n* In partic.\n* Of speech: multa leniter, multa aspere dicta sunt,Cic. Brut. 44, 164: agit versum Roscius quam leniter, quam remisse, quam non actuose,id. de Or. 3, 26, 102.—Comp.: qui jamdiu multo dicis remissius et lenius quam solebas,Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 255.\n* Moderately, i. e. very little, not at all: hoc leniter laudabitis,Plaut. Poen. 5, 3, 40; 3, 3, 9: leniter qui saeviunt sapiunt magis,id. Bacch. 3, 3, 4.\n* In a bad sense, remissly, indolently: si cunctetur atque agat lenius,too slowly,Caes. B. C. 1, 1."
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                    "description": "lenis (noun M) : \n* A kind of vessel, Afran. and Laber. ap. Non. 544, 31."
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