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|lshtext=<b>palpo</b>: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., and pal-por, ātus [[palpus]]; cf. Gr. [[ψάλλω]]>, 1,<br /><b>I</b> v. dep. a., to [[stroke]], to [[touch]] [[softly]], to [[pat]] ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]; syn. [[mulceo]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: [[modo]] pectora praebet Virgineā palpanda manu, Ov. M. 2, 867 Jahn N. cr.: palpate lupos, Manil. 5, 702: cum equum permulsit [[quis]] vel palpatus est, Dig. 9, 1, 1: [[tamquam]] si manu palpetur, Schol. Juv. 6, 196: animalia blandi manu palpata magistri, Prud. στεφ. 11, 91.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> To [[caress]], [[coax]], [[wheedle]], [[flatter]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Absol.: hoc sis vide ut palpatur! [[nullus]] est [[quando]] occepit, [[blandior]], Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 57; Lucil. ap. Non. 472, 6: palpabo, ecquonam [[modo]] possim, etc., Cic. Att. 9, 9, 1: [[nihil]] asperum tetrumque palpanti est, Sen. Ira, 3, 8, 7.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With dat.: [[quam]] [[blande]] mulieri palpabitur, Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 9: cui [[male]] si palpere, recalcitrat [[undique]] [[tutus]], Hor. S. 2, 1, 20: scribenti palpare, Poll. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With acc.: quem munere palpat [[Carus]], Juv. 1, 35; App. M. 5, p. 172, 39.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> To [[feel]] one's [[way]] ([[late]] Lat.): et palpes in meridie, [[sicut]] palpare solet [[caecus]] in tenebris, Vulg. Deut. 28, 29; id. Job, 5, 14.<br /><b>palpo</b>: ōnis, m. 1. [[palpo]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[flatterer]], Pers. 5, 176.