by a relaxing

rĕmissĭo, ōnis, f. [id.] (acc. to remitto, I. A. and B.), a sending back or away, releasing

Lit. (rare).

A sending back, returning; of persons:

obsidum captivorumque,

Liv. 27, 17, 1.—Of things, a throwing back, reflecting:

splendoris,

Vitr. 7, 3, 9.—

A letting down, lowering:

ex superciliorum aut remissione aut contractione,

Cic. Off. 1, 41, 146.—

Trop.

A slackening, relaxing, abating, diminishing, remitting; remission, relaxation, abatement (syn. relaxatio):

animus intentione suā depellit pressum omnem ponderum, remissione autem sic urgetur, ut se nequeat extollere,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 23, 54:

contentiones vocis et remissiones,

id. de Or. 1, 61, 261; cf. id. Brut. 91, 314; so,

vocis,

Quint. 1, 10, 25: sphugmos est intentio motūs et remissio in corde et in arteria, Gell. 18, 10, 10:

remissio lenitatis quādam gravitate et contentione firmatur,

laxity, Cic. de Or. 2, 53, 212:

operis,

Varr. R. R. 1, 17, 7; cf.

laboris,

id. ib. 2, 6, 4; Quint. 3, 8, 29:

tales igitur amicitiae sunt remissione usus eluendae,

Cic. Lael. 21, 76:

senescentis morbi remissio,

id. Fam. 7, 26, 1; so,

febris,

Suet. Tib. 73:

doloris,

Scrib. Comp. 99.—

Slackness, laxness, want of spirit:

in acerbissimā injuriā remissio animi ac dissolutio,

Cic. Fam. 5, 2, 9.—

Relaxation, recreation:

ad omnem animi remissionem ludumque descendere,

Cic. de Or 2, 6, 22; so,

animorum,

id. Fam. 9, 24, 3; id. Arch. 7, 16.— Absol.:

quem non quies, non remissio, non aequalium studia, non ludi delectarent,

Cic. Cael. 17, 39:

danda est omnibus aliqua remissio,

Quint. 1, 3, 8.— Absol. in plur., Quint. 1, 3, 8, § 11; Gell. 15, 2, 5; Plin. Ep. 4, 3, 1, id. Pan. 49, 4:

tempora curarum remissionumque,

Tac. Agr. 9; id. Or. 28.—

Mildness, gentleness, lenity:

(Adversarius) tum ad severitatem, tum ad remissionem animi est contorquen dus,

Cic. de Or. 2, 17, 72 (cf. remissus, B. 1.): so,

remissione poenae,

by a relaxing, diminishing of punishment, by a milder punishment, id. Cat. 4, 6, 13.—

(Acc. to remitto, I. B. 2. b.) A remitting of a penalty, etc., a remission, Col. 1, 7, 1; Suet. Caes. 20; Plin. Ep. 8, 2, 6; 10, 8, 5:

remissio tributi in triennium,

Tac. A. 4, 13:

nuntiationis,

remission, abrogation, Dig. 39, 1, 8, § 4.— Plur.:

post magnas remissiones,

reduction of rent, Plin. Ep. 9, 37, 2.—

In eccl. Lat., remission, forgiveness of sin, etc.:

delicti,

Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 28: peccatorum, Ambros. de Isaac et Anim. 1, 1; Vulg. Matt. 26, 28; id. Act. 2, 38.—

A repetition:

nova ludorum remissio,

Petr. 60, 5.

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ignāvus, a, um, adj. [in-gnavus, navus], inactive, lazy, slothful, idle, sluggish, listless, without spirit, cowardly, dastardly (syn.: iners, socors; opp.: strenuus, alacer, fortis).

Lit., of living beings (freq. and class.):

homines,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 5, 49:

si non fecero Ei male aliquo pacto, me esse dicito ignavissimum,

id. Bacch. 3, 6, 27:

quid ergo ille ignavissumus mi latitabat?

id. Trin. 4, 2, 82; 1, 2, 128; id. Poen. 4, 2, 24:

homo inertior, ignavior, magis vir inter mulieres proferri non potest,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 78, § 192:

ignavus miles ac timidus,

id. Tusc. 2, 23, 54; cf.:

compertum habeo, milites neque ex ignavo strenuum neque fortem ex timido exercitum oratione imperatoris fieri,

Sall. C. 58, 1:

feroces et inquieti inter socios, ignavi et imbelles inter hostes,

Liv. 26, 2, 11:

ignavissimus ac fugacissimus hostis,

id. 5, 28, 8:

ignavissimi homines (opp.: fortissimi viri),

Sall. C. 12 fin.:

canis Ignavus adversum lupos,

Hor. Epod. 6, 2:

(apes) Ignavaeque fame et contracto frigore pigrae,

Verg. G. 4, 259:

ignavum, fucos, pecus a praesepibus arcent,

id. A. 1, 435:

genus ignavum quod lecto gaudet,

Juv. 7, 105.— Subst.:

cedentibus ignavis et imbecillis,

Cic. Rep. 1, 32:

in bello poena ignavis ab imperatoribus constituitur,

id. Caecin. 16, 46:

in victoria vel ignavis gloriari licet, adversae res etiam bonos detractant,

Sall. J. 53 fin.; cf.:

gloriam, honorem, imperium bonus ignavus aeque sibi exoptant,

id. C. 11, 2:

favimus ignavo,

Ov. Am. 3, 2, 73.—

With gen.:

legiones operum et laboris ignavae,

Tac. A. 11, 18; cf.:

possis ignavus haberi et subiti casus improvidus, si, etc.,

Juv. 3, 272.

Transf.

Of inanim. and abstr. things (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

quae vitia non sunt senectutis, sed inertis, ignavae, somniculosae senectutis,

Cic. de Sen. 11, 36:

nemora,

i. e. unfruitful, Verg. G. 2, 208:

globus,

i. e. immovable, Plin. 2, 8, 6, § 33; cf.

gravitas,

Ov. M. 2, 821:

stagna jacentis aquae,

Luc. 5, 442:

ignavo stupuerunt verba palato,

i. e. speechless, Ov. Am. 2, 6, 47:

mora,

id. A. A. 1, 186:

anni,

spent in idleness, id. Am. 1, 15, 1; cf.

otia,

id. Tr. 1, 7, 25:

septima lux,

i. e. the Jewish Sabbath, Juv. 14, 106: ignavum conferunt stipendium, only money, not soldiers, arms, etc., Vell. 2, 39, 1:

sucus meconium vocatur, multum opio ignavior,

weaker, less efficacious, Plin. 20, 18, 76, § 202: quorundam flos tantum jucundus, reliquae partes ignavae, ut violae ac rosae, without smell, id. 21, 7, 18, § 37:

cornicula ante oculos ignava,

i. e. of no use, id. 11, 28, 34, § 100:

ignavum est rediturae parcere vitae,

Luc. 1, 492.—

Of things that produce inactivity or indolence, that renders slothful or inactive: nec nos impediet illa ignava ratio, quae dicitur: appellatur enim quidam a philosophis argos logos, cui si pareamus, nihil omnino agamus in vita. Sic enim interrogant:

Si fatum tibi est, etc.... Recte genus hoc interrogationis ignavum et iners nominatum est, quod eadem ratione omnis e vita tolletur actio,

relaxing, Cic. Fat. 12, 28 sq.:

frigus,

Ov. M. 2, 763:

aestus,

id. ib. 7, 529:

dolor,

Plin. 11, 18, 20, § 64.—Hence, adv. in two forms, ignāvē and ignā-vĭter.

Ignave, sluggishly, slothfully, without spirit:

ne quid abjecte, ne quid timide, ne quid ignave, ne quid serviliter muliebriterve faciamus,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 23, 55:

dicere multa,

flatly, tamely, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 67.—

Ignaviter, lazily, sluggishly, tardily: ignaviter quaerere, Lucil. ap. Non. 513, 14; Quadrig. ap. Prisc. p. 1010 P.; Hirt. ap. Cic. Att. 15, 6, 2.—

Comp.:

carpere ignavius herbas,

Verg. G. 3, 465.

rĕmissīvus, a, um, adj. [id.] (late Lat.).

In medicine, relaxing, laxative: relaxare [p. 1562] tumentia rebus congruis et remissivis, Cael. Aur. Acut. 3, 4.—

In gram.: adverbia, formed to express the idea in a weakened or moderated sense, remissive (like pedetentim, paulatim, sensim, etc.), Prisc. p. 1021 P.

rĕsŏlūtĭo, ōnis, f. [resolvo], an untying, unbinding, loosening (not ante-Aug.).

Lit., a slackening, relaxing; a laxness, looseness, weakness:

lori,

Gell. 17, 9, 12:

ventris, stomachi, nervorum, oculorum,

Cels. 2, 6; 4, 5; 2, 1; 3, 27, 1; 6, 6, 36.—

Trop.

A making void, a cancelling:

venditionis,

Dig. 41, 2, 13.—

A solution:

sophismatis,

an explanation, Gell. 18, 2, 10 (dub.). —

A release, escape (late Lat.), Vulg. 2 Tim. 4, 6.

sŏlūbĭlis, e, adj. [solvo] (post-class.).

Pass., that may be loosed or taken apart, dissolvable:

pons,

Amm. 16, 8, 10: mundus, Min. Oct. 34: caro, Prud. steph. 10, 506. —

Act., loosening, relaxing:

aër,

Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 37, 192.