molles
Dictionary entries
- Entry →mollis, molle, mollior -or -us, mollissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
soft (cushion/grass); flexible/supple/loose/pliant; mild/tolerable; easy; calm;; weak; cowardly; unmanly; effeminate; womanish; pathic; tender (women/youths);; conciliatory/peaceful; complaisant; kindly; impressionable/sensitive; feeble;; tender, gentle; smooth, relaxing; languid (movement); amorous (writings);
acc. pl. (m./f.)nom. pl. (m./f.)voc. pl. (m./f.)
Examples
- M
Liber IV
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...maris Hadriaci longas ferit unda Salonaset tepidum in molles Zephyros excurrit Iader, 405illic bellaci confisus gente Curictum,quos..." - T
Liber IV
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...cuiquest, ideoque necesse est et quod molle sit et gelidum fervensve videre et seorsum varios rerum sentire colores..." - D
Satura III
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...ultimus ardebit quem tegula sola tuetur a pluvia, molles ubi reddunt ova columbae. lectus erat Cordo Procula minor..." - D
Satura II
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...illos defendit numerus iunctaeque umbone phalanges. magna inter molles concordia. non erit ullum exemplum in nostro tam detestabile..." - D
Satura I
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...gemma fecerit uda? occurrit matrona potens, quae molle Calenum porrectura uiro miscet sitiente rubetam instituitque rudes melior Lucusta..." - D
Satura VI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...cunis, contempsit pelagus; famam contempserat olim, cuius apud molles minima est iactura cathedras. Tyrrhenos igitur fluctus lateque sonantem..." de Spectaculis
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial) from EPIGRAMMATON LIBRI
"...Assyrius iactet nec Babylona labor; nec Triuiae templo molles laudentur Iones, dissimulet Delon cornibus ara frequens aere..."- T
Pseudolus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...sermo suavisaviatio] compressiones artae amantum corporum, teneris labellis molles morsiunculae, [nostrorum orgiorum—iunculae] 67a papillarum horridularum oppressiunculae, harunc..."