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emollio
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Lewis Short
(verb) : ē-mollĭo, ii, ītum, 4
* To make soft, to soften (perh. not ante-Aug.).
* Lit.: humor arcus fundasque et jaculorum amenta emollierat,Liv. 37, 41; Cels. 8, 4: ova macerata,Plin. 10, 60, 80, § 167; 18, 7, 17, § 77; 20, 2, 6, § 11 al.
* Transf.: colores,to soften, make more delicate,Plin. 35, 17, 57, § 198.
* Trop.
* In a good sense, to make mild or gentle, to mollify: mores,Ov. P. 2, 9, 48: severa praecepta,Aur. Vict. Epit. 48.
* In a bad sense, to enervate, render effeminate: exercitum (Capua),Liv. 27, 3; cf. id. 38, 49; Tac. H. 3, 2; id. Agr. 11: emollit gentes clementia caeli,Luc. 8, 565: auctoritatem principis,to weaken,Aur. Vict. Epit. 1.
* To make soft, to soften (perh. not ante-Aug.).
* Lit.: humor arcus fundasque et jaculorum amenta emollierat,Liv. 37, 41; Cels. 8, 4: ova macerata,Plin. 10, 60, 80, § 167; 18, 7, 17, § 77; 20, 2, 6, § 11 al.
* Transf.: colores,to soften, make more delicate,Plin. 35, 17, 57, § 198.
* Trop.
* In a good sense, to make mild or gentle, to mollify: mores,Ov. P. 2, 9, 48: severa praecepta,Aur. Vict. Epit. 48.
* In a bad sense, to enervate, render effeminate: exercitum (Capua),Liv. 27, 3; cf. id. 38, 49; Tac. H. 3, 2; id. Agr. 11: emollit gentes clementia caeli,Luc. 8, 565: auctoritatem principis,to weaken,Aur. Vict. Epit. 1.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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