leniture
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;
voc. sg. fut. act. part. - 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);
voc. sg. fut. act. part.
Examples
Liber XVI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...quaere quem vincas'. * * * His sermonibus et his similibus lenitur illa vis ulceris, quam opto mehercules mitigari..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...animi vitia ponuntur: quidquid infixum et ingenitum est lenitur arte, non vincitur. Quibusdam etiam constantissimis in conspectu populi..."BELLUM IUGURTHINUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...dolum caperetur. Quae ubi tardius procedunt neque lenitur animus ferox, statuit quovis modo inceptum perficere. Primo conventu, quem..."
