mollĭtĭa | mollĭcĭa, ēi | mol-lĭtĭes | mollĭcĭes (noun F.f) : (), , f., and (), , f. mollis
* Movableness, pliability, flexibility, suppleness; softness (class.).
* Lit.: mollitia cervicum,Cic. Or. 18, 59: lapidis,Plin. 36, 22, 45, § 162: lanae,id. 19, 3, 18, § 48: carnis,id. 9, 17, 28, § 61: teneritas et mollitia quaedam,Cic. Fin. 5, 21, 58.
* Trop., softness, tenderness, susceptibility; weakness, irresolution; effeminacy, voluptuousness, wantonness (cf.: inertia, desidia): quā mollitiā sum animi ac lenitate, numquam mehercule illius lacrimis ac precibus restitissem,Cic. Sull. 6, 18: agilitas mollitiesque naturae,sensitive disposition,id. Att. 1, 17, 4: frontis,bashfulness,Plin. Ep. 6, 29, 6: animi est ista mollities, non virtus, inopiam paulisper ferre non posse,weakness, irresolution,Caes. B. G. 7, 77: Niciae,Cic. Att. 12, 26, 2: inertiā et mollitiā animi,Sall. C. 52, 28: mollitia socordiaque,id. J. 70, 5: in munditiis, mollitiis deliciisque aetatulam agere,Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 40: civitatum mores lapsi ad mollitiam,Cic. Leg. 2, 15, 38: mollities luxuriaque,Just. 1, 7, 13: vocis, Claud. ap. Eutr. 1, 441: Maecenas otio ac mollitiis paene ultra feminam fluens,Vell. 2, 88, 2; id. 1, 6, 2.—Esp., unchastity, Plin. 28, 8, 27, § 106: corporis,Tac. A. 11, 2.

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