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
Liber XX
Aulus Gellius
"...istic esse animadvertuntur aut obscurissima aut durissima aut lenia contra nimis et remissa aut nequaquam ita, ut scriptum..."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..."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..."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..."
