(adj.adv.) : mītis, e, adj.etym. dub.; cf. Sanscr. mith-, to associate; Lat. mutuus
* Mild, mellow, mature, ripe; of the soil, mellow, light, kindly, fruitful; of a river, calm, gentle, placid (class.; syn.: lenis, placidus, comis).
* Lit.: sunt nobis mitia poma,Verg. E. 1, 81: uva,id. G. 1, 448: Bacchus (i. e. vinum),mellow,id. ib. 1, 344: suci,Ov. M. 14, 690: mite solum Tiburis,Hor. C. 1, 18, 2: mitis (fluvius) in morem stagni,Verg. A. 8, 88: flamma,harmless, innoxious,Sil. 16, 120.
* Trop., mild, soft, gentle.
* In gen.: nihil tam vidi mite, nihil tam placatum, quam tum meus frater erat in sororem tuam,Cic. Att. 5, 1, 3: mitis tranquillusque homo,Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 2: homo mitissimus atque lenissimus,Cic. Cat. 4, 5, 10: ex feris et immanibus, mites reddidit et mansuetos,id. Inv. 1, 2, 2.— Poet., with acc., in respect of: nec Mauris animum mitior anguibus,Hor. C. 3, 10, 18. —With dat.: mites hostibus,Ov. P. 2, 1, 48: poenitentiae mitior,towards the penitent,Tac. Agr. 16.
* Comically, made soft, mellow with beating: mitis sum equidem fustibus,Plaut. Mil. 5, 31; cf. Ter. Ad. 2, 4, 12.—Hence, adv.: mīte, mildly, soflly, gently (rare; not in Cic.): mite connivere,App. M. 10, p. 285, 4.—Comp.: mitius ille perit,Ov. P. 3, 7, 27. —Sup.: mitissime legatos appellare,Caes. B. G. 7, 43.
* Of speech: Thucydides si posterius fuisset, multo maturior fuisset et mitior,riper and mellower, more palalable,Cic. Brut. 83, 288: mitis et compta oratio,id. Sen. 9, 28: non hac tam atroci, sed illa lege mitissima, causam dicere,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 9, § 26.

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