remollio
From LSJ
τίς τὸν πλανήτην Οἰδίπουν καθ' ἡμέραν τὴν νῦν σπανιστοῖς δέξεται δωρήμασιν → who on this day shall receive Oedipus the wanderer with scanty gifts
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.
