Eblandior, eblandîris, pen. prod. eblandíri. Cic.To get or obtaine a thing by flatterie.Eblanditus vt prius caneret cithara. Plinius. He obtained by faire wordes that he might first play on his harpe.Eblandiri suffragia.Cic.With faire intreatie to obtaine.Eblãdire solitudines ruris dicÛtur, in passiua significatione.Colum. Voluptates acquirere, quibus solitudines ruris eblandiantur. With which the solitarinesse of the countrey may be made not to grieue men.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ē-blandĭor, ītus, 4, v. dep. a., to obtain by flattery or coaxing (rare but class.): enitere, elabora vel potius eblandire, effice, ut, etc., Cic. Att. 16, 16 C, 12; cf. Plin. 9, 8, 8, 28; Liv. 27, 31: unum consulatus diem, Tac. H. 3, 37: solitudinem ruris, Col. 8, 11, 1.—II. Of inanimate subjects, to foster, mature by mildness: caelo fecunditatem omnem eblandito, Plin. 16, 27, 51, 118; cf. Vitr. 7, 5, 5; and somewhat diferently: ut eblandiatur lac igneam saevitiam, i. e. mitigate and drive it out, Col. 7, 5, 16.!*? Part., eblandītus, a, um, pass., obtained or caught by flattery: eblandita suffragia, Cic. Planc. 4, 10; cf. preces, Plin. Pan. 70 fin.: aures nostrae, Gell. 11, 13, 5.