Sunt verba voces quibus hunc lenire dolorem possis, magnam morbi deponere partem → Words will avail the wretched mind to ease and much abate the dismal black disease.
dē-mītĭgo: āre,
I v. a., to make milder; pass., to become milder, more lenient: nosmet ipsi quotidie demitigamur, Cic. Att. 1, 13, 3.
dēmītĭgō, āre, tr., adoucir : Cic. Att. 1, 13, 3.