lenias
Dictionary entries
- Entry →lenio, lenire, lenivi, lenitus:
Verb · 4th conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
mitigate, moderate; alleviate, allay, assuage, ease, calm, placate, appease;; mollify; explain away, gloss over; beguile, pass pleasantly; abate;
sg. pres. act. subj. 2nd - Entry →lenio, lenire, lenivi(ii), lenitus:
Verb · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Whitaker
mitigate, moderate; alleviate, allay, assuage, ease, calm, placate, appease;; mollify; explain away, gloss over; beguile, pass pleasantly; abate; (Kludge);
sg. pres. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
- A
Liber XX
Aulus Gellius
"...istic esse animadvertuntur aut obscurissima aut durissima aut lenia contra nimis et remissa aut nequaquam ita, ut scriptum..." - L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...uites, et illa ex contrario quae sequaris, moderata, lenia, quibus nec ad irascendum causa defuit nec ad ulciscendum..." - M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...sublimibus, ornatis longas magis syllabas convenire, ita ut lenia spatium, sublimia et ornata claritatem quoque vocalium poscant..." - P
Amores II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...blanditias elegosque levis, mea tela, resumpsi; mollierunt duras lenia verba fores. carmina sanguineae deducunt cornua lunae, et revocant..."