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make the ascent easier

  • 1 molliō

        molliō (mollībat for molliēbat, O.), īvī, ītus, īre    [mollis], to make soft, make supple, soften: umor mollitur tepefactus: lanam trahendo, by spinning, O.: artūs oleo, L.: dum ferrum molliat ignis, H.: glaebas, O.: agri molliti.—Fig., to pacify, conciliate, moderate: hominem his verbis sentio mollirier, T.: lacrimae meorum me molliunt, overcome me. —To soften, moderate, mitigate, tame, restrain, check, ease, lighten: Hannibalem patientiā suā: iras, L.: poenam, O.: clivum, make the ascent easier, Cs.: verba usu: fructūs feros colendo, render milder, V.— To soften, render effeminate, make unmanly: legionem: membra, O.
    * * *
    mollire, mollivi, mollitus V
    soften, mitigate, make easier; civilize, tame, enfeeble

    Latin-English dictionary > molliō

  • 2 mollio

    mollĭo, īvi and ii, ītum, 4 (mollibat for molliebat, Att. ap. Non. 347, 16; Ov. M. 6, 21:

    mollirier for molliri,

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 27), v. a. [mollis], to make soft, pliant, flexible, or supple, to soften (class.).
    I.
    Lit.:

    frigoribus durescit umor, et idem vicissim mollitur tepefactus,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 10, 26:

    lanam trahendo,

    by spinning, Ov. M. 2, 411:

    artus oleo,

    Liv. 21, 55:

    dum ferrum molliat ignis,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 20:

    ceram,

    Ov. M. 8, 198:

    semina,

    id. ib. 7, 123:

    humum foliis,

    id. ib. 4, 741:

    glebas,

    id. ib. 6, 220:

    ventrem,

    to relax, purge moderately, Plin. 20, 5, 20, § 43:

    duritias,

    id. 28, 17, 70, § 34:

    agri molliti,

    softened, loosened, Cic. N. D. 2, 50, 130.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    To soften, moderate, mitigate; to tame, restrain, check; to render easier, lighter, pleasanter, or less disagreeable:

    Hannibalem juveniliter exsultantem patientiā suā molliebat,

    Cic. Sen. 4, 10: quā mons mollibat mare, broke the violence of the sea, Att. ap. Non. 347, 16:

    iras,

    Liv. 1, 9:

    impetum,

    id. 3, 35:

    indocili numero cum grave mollit opus,

    Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 6:

    poenam,

    id. ib. 3, 5, 53:

    clivum,

    to make the ascent of a hill easier, Caes. B. G. 7, 46:

    clivos,

    Liv. 21, 37, 3:

    verba usu,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 34, 95:

    translationem,

    id. de Or. 3, 41, 165:

    fructus feros colendo,

    to render milder, Verg. G. 2, 36:

    caelum,

    Plin. 2, 47, 47, § 124:

    lacrimae meorum me interdum molliunt,

    overcome me, Cic. Att. 10, 9, 2:

    Deus mollivit cor meum,

    softened, Vulg. Job, 23, 16.—
    B.
    To soften, render effeminate or unmanly:

    legionem,

    Cic. Phil. 12, 3, 8:

    animos,

    id. Tusc. 2, 11, 27: vocem, to make soft or womanish, Quint. 11, 3, 24:

    puerum,

    to unman, Stat. S. 3, 4, 68.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > mollio

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