dolor+relaxat+c

rĕ-laxo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to stretch out or widen again; to unloose, loosen, open (class.; cf.: solvo, libero).

Lit.:

alvus tum astringitur, tum relaxatur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 136; cf.:

tum astringentibus se intestinis tum relaxantibus,

id. ib. 2, 55, 138:

densa relaxare (opp. rara densare),

Verg. G. 1, 419:

dissolvunt nodos omnes et vincla relaxant,

Lucr. 6, 356: tunicarum vincula, Ov. F. 2, 321; cf.

nodos (sc. aquaï),

Lucr. 6, 878 (with exsolvere glaciem); cf.:

fontibus ora,

Ov. M. 1, 281:

caecos fontes,

Sil. 3, 51:

glaebas,

to loosen, Varr. R. R. 1, 27, 2:

humum,

Col. 11, 3, 46 Schneid. N. cr.; Pall. 2, 13, 3:

vias et caeca Spiramenta,

Verg. G. 1, 89:

claustra,

Ov. Am. 1, 6, 17; cf.

flores,

Sen. Thyest. 903:

diversa bracchia,

to spread out, Sil. 14, 399:

arcum,

to unbend, Sen. Agam. 322:

ut, quae (aedificia) sunt vetustate sublapsa, relaxentur in melius,

restored, Plin. Ep. 10, 70 (75), 1 Keil (al. reparentur).—

Trop., to slacken, ease, lighten, alleviate, mitigate, soften, assuage; to cheer up, enliven, relax (a favorite word of Cic.; cf.:

relevo, recreo, mitigo): animos doctrinā,

Cic. Arch. 6, 12; cf.:

tu a contentionibus cottidie relaxes aliquid,

id. Leg. 1, 4, 11: quaero enim non quibus intendam rebus animam, sed quibus relaxem, ac remittam, id. Fragm. ap. Non. 329, 7, and 383, 23:

constructio verborum tum conjunctionibus copuletur, tum dissolutionibus relaxetur,

id. Part. 6, 21:

pater nimis indulgens, quicquid ego astrinxi, relaxat,

id. Att. 10, 6, 2:

animus somno relaxatus,

id. Div. 2, 48, 100:

animum,

id. Brut. 5, 21; id. Rep. 1, 9, 14; cf.:

relaxare animos et dare se jucunditati,

id. Off. 1, 34, 122:

ut ex pristino sermone relaxarentur animi omnium,

id. de Or. 1, 8, 29:

anxiferas curas requiete, id. poët. Div. 1, 13, 22: (risus) tristitiam ac severitatem mitigat et relaxat,

id. de Or. 2, 58, 236; cf.:

tristem vultum relaxare,

Sen. Cons. ad Helv. 15;

and, with this, cf.: relaxato in hilaritatem vultu,

Petr. 49, 8:

ne nocturna quidem quiete diurnum laborem relaxante,

Curt. 5, 13, 5: mores aetas lasciva relaxat, i. e. makes dissolute, Claud. Prob. et Olybr. 153:

(animi) cum se plane corporis vinculis relaxaverint,

Cic. Sen. 22, 81; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 330:

se occupationibus,

Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 5; id. Att. 16, 16, 2:

se a nimiā necessitate,

id. Or. 52, 176. —

Mid.: homines quamvis in turbidis rebus sint, tamen interdum animis relaxantur,

Cic. Phil. 2, 16, 39:

insani cum relaxentur,

when they come to themselves, when the attack abates, id. Ac. 2, 17, 52.— Absol.: (dolor) si longus, levis;

dat enim intervalla et relaxat,

Cic. Fin. 2, 29, 94.