blandient
Dictionary entries
- Entry →blandio, blandire, blandivi, blanditus:
Verb · 4th conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
flatter, delude; fawn; coax, urge, behave/speak ingratiatingly; allure; please;
pl. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
de Clementia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...magister; fiet enim formidolosus et contumax, nisi eum blandiente tactu permulseris. 5. Idem facit ille venator, quique instituit..."Liber V
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...placuisse ferunt, quia is finem laborum tulerit; dein blandiente inertia septimum quoque annum ignaviae datum. Alii honorem..."