dolosum consilium

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.—

Of things:

mitis et misericors animus,

Cic. Inv. 1, 55, 106:

consilium,

Ov. Tr. 1, 5, 5:

doctrina,

Cic. Mur. 29, 160: malum, blandum atque dolosum, Lucil. ap. Non. 343, 9:

mitius exsilium,

Ov. Tr. 2, 185:

servitium,

Prop. 3, 13, 20:

opes,

acquired through a long peace, Sil. 14, 653:

affectus mitiores,

Quint. 5, 13, 2:

ingenium,

Juv. 4, 82; 13, 184:

animus,

id. 14, 15.—

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,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 9, § 26.—

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.