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  • 1 blandīmentum

        blandīmentum ī, n    [blandior], flattering words, blandishment, complimentary speech, flattery: Ibi blandimentum sublevavit metum, Ta.— Usu. plur: blandimenta plebi ab senatu data, L.: adversus plebem, Ta.—Fig., an allurement, pleasure, charm: voluptatis: vitae, Ta.: sine blandimentis expellunt famem, seasoning, Ta.
    * * *
    blandishment, coaxing/wheedling behavior, cajolery; favors; charm, delight

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  • 2 blandicellum

    flattering words (pl.)

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  • 3 blandidicus

    blandidica, blandidicum ADJ
    using fair/flattering words, smooth spoken/talking

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  • 4 blandicella

    blandĭcella, ōrum, n. dim., coaxing or flattering words, Paul. ex Fest. p. 35 Müll.

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  • 5 blandimentum

    blandīmentum, i, n. [blandior].
    I.
    flattering words, blandishment, complimentary speech, flattery (class.; most freq. in plur. and in Tac.):

    nec eam (virtutem) minis aut blandimentis corrupta deseret,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 31, 87:

    pessum dedisti me blandimentis tuis,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 23; id. Truc. 2, 2, 63:

    multa igitur blandimenta plebi per id tempus ab senatu data,

    Liv. 2, 9, 6:

    captus blandimentis,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 19, 4:

    per blandimenta juvenem aggredi,

    Tac. A. 13, 13; 12, 64:

    muliebribus blandimentis infectae epistulae,

    id. H. 1, 74.—In sing., Tac. A. 14, 4.—And in poet. exuberance:

    cui blandimenta precesque Verbaque jactanti mitissima, desine, dixit, etc.,

    Ov. M. 2, 815.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    Any thing that pleases the senses, an object that charms, an allurement, a pleasure, charm, delight:

    multa nobis blandimenta natura ipsa genuit,

    Cic. Cael. 17, 41: blandimenta vitae [p. 241] = res, quae vitam jucundam reddunt), Tac. A. 15, 64; id. H. 2, 53 (cf.:

    delinimenta vitae,

    id. A. 15, 63):

    aestivi caloris,

    Pall. Sept. 17:

    vecturae,

    Veg. 2, 28, 37.—Of the spices, seasoning, condiments in food, Petr. 141, 8; Tac. G. 23.—
    B.
    Healing applications, cures:

    alia quoque blandimenta excogitabat,

    Plin. 26, 3, 8, § 14.—
    C.
    Careful culture:

    hoc blandimento (i. e. blanda cultura) impetratis radicibus,

    Plin. 17, 13, 21, § 98.

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  • 6 adulor

    ădūlor, ātūs, 1, v. dep. [acc. to Lobeck, the -ulo, -ulor is connected with illein (cf. eiluô, eluô, and volvo), and thus denoted orig. the wagging of the tail and fawning of brutes; Fest. p. 21 Müll., thought adulor was a form of adludo, to play with; cf. Ger. wedeln and Eng. to wheedle], to cling to one fawningly, to fawn as a dog; and trop., of cringing flattery, which is exhibited in words and actions, to flatter in a cringing manner, to fawn upon (while assentari signified to yield to one in everything, to assent to what he says, and is used only of men; and blandiri, to be soft and pleasing in manner, to flatter by honeyed words as well as by captivating manners; cf. Cic. Lael. 25).— Constr. with acc., more rarely with dat., Rudd. II. p. 136; Zumpt, § 389.
    I.
    In gen.:

    ferarum Agmen adulantum,

    Ov. M. 14, 45:

    Quin etiam blandas movere per aëra caudas, Nostraque adulantes comitant vestigia,

    id. ib. 14, 257. caudam more adulantium canum blande movet, Gell. 5, 14:

    hi (canes) furem quoque adulantur,

    Col. 7, 12.— Meton.:

    horrentem, trementem, adulantem omnīs videre te volui: vidi,

    Cic. Pis. 41:

    aperte adulantem nemo non videt,

    id. Lael. 26:

    aut adulatus aut admiratus fortunam sum alterius,

    id. Div. 2, 2, 6;

    Liv 45, 31: quemcunque principem,

    Tac. H. 1, 32:

    Neronem aut Tigellium,

    id. A. 16, 19: dominum, Sen. de Ira, 2, 31; Nep., Liv., and Curt. have the dat.: Antonio, Nep. [p. 47] Att. 8:

    praesentibus,

    Liv. 36, 7:

    singulis,

    Curt. 4, 1, 19.—In the time of Quint. the use of the dat. was predominant: huic non hunc adulari jam dicitur, 9, 3, 1; yet Tac. preferred the acc., v. the passages cited above.—
    II.
    Esp. of the servile reverence paid to Asiatic kings, proskunein; cf.

    adulatio: more adulantium procubuerunt: conveniens oratio tam humili adulationi fuit,

    Liv. 30, 16:

    more Persarum,

    Val. Max. 4, 7, ext. 2; so id. ib. 6, 3, ext. 2.—Hence, ădū-lans, antis, P. a., flattering, adulatory:

    verba,

    Plin. Pan. 26:

    quid adulantius?

    Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 27.— Sup. is wanting.—
    * Adv.: ădūlanter, flatteringly, fawningly, Fulg. Contin. Verg. p. 153.

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  • 7 blandiloquium

    soft words; flattering speech

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  • 8 blandiloquium

    blandĭlŏquĭum, ii, n. [blandus-loquor], soft words, flattering speech:

    insidiosum,

    Aug. Ep. ad Hier. 19, 4.

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