remollio: Difference between revisions
πέτρην κοιλαίνει ρανὶς ὕδατος ἐνδελεχείῃ → constant dropping wears away a stone, constant dripping will wear away the hardest stone, little strokes fell big oaks, constant dripping wears the stone, constant dropping wears the stone, constant dripping will wear away a stone
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|gf=<b>rĕmollĭō</b>,¹⁵ ītum, īre, tr.,<br /><b>1</b> amollir : Col. Rust. 2, 11, 2 ; Ps. Apul. Herb. 3, 9<br /><b>2</b> [fig.] amollir, énerver : Ov. M. 4, 286 || adoucir, fléchir : Suet. Aug. 79. | |gf=<b>rĕmollĭō</b>,¹⁵ ītum, īre, tr.,<br /><b>1</b> amollir : Col. Rust. 2, 11, 2 ; Ps. Apul. Herb. 3, 9<br /><b>2</b> [fig.] amollir, énerver : Ov. M. 4, 286 || adoucir, fléchir : Suet. Aug. 79.||adoucir, fléchir : Suet. Aug. 79. | ||
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Revision as of 07:46, 14 August 2017
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
rĕ-mollio: no
I perf., ītum, 4, v. a., to make soft again, to make soft, soften (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
I Lit.: terram, Col. 2, 11, 9: grana umore remollita, App. Herb. 3, 9: quare ... Salmacis enervet tactosque remolliat artus, softens, weakens, Ov. M. 4, 286.—
II Trop.: eo se inhibitum ac remolitum, quo minus, ut destinarat, etc., softened, mollified, Suet. Aug. 79.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
rĕmollĭō,¹⁵ ītum, īre, tr.,
1 amollir : Col. Rust. 2, 11, 2 ; Ps. Apul. Herb. 3, 9
2 [fig.] amollir, énerver : Ov. M. 4, 286 || adoucir, fléchir : Suet. Aug. 79.
