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(adjective) : plācābĭlis, e, placo.
* Pass., easy to be pacified, easily appeased, placable (class.): inimicis te placabilem, amicis inexorabilem praebes,Auct. Her. 4, 15, 21; 4, 45, 58: animi,Cic. Att. 1, 17, 4: ut eo placabiliorem praebeas, Anton. ap. Cic. Att. 14, 13, A fin.: omnia habuisset aequiora et placabiliora,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 38, § 95: que quisque est major, magis est placabilis ira (al. irae),Ov. Tr. 3, 5, 31.—With ad: Hortensii tam placabile ad justas preces ingenium,Liv. 4, 42, 9.—Poet.: ara Dianae,placable, mild, gentle,Verg. A. 7, 764; so, ara Palici,id. ib. 9, 585.
* Transf., act., pacifying, appeasing, moderating, propitiating, acceptable (ante- and post-class.): te ipsum purgare ipsis coram placabilius est,is more fitted to appease,Ter. Ad. 4, 3, 17; id. Phorm. 5, 7, 68: si una hostia placabilis, placabiliores utique hostiae plures,Lact. 4, 28, 7: lingua,Vulg. Prov. 15, 4: sacrificium,Lact. Epit. 67, 4: hostia,Vulg. Num. 5, 8.—Adv.: plācābĭlĭter, act., soothingly, appeasingly, Gell. 7, 3, 19.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary

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