Emollio, emollis, emollíui, emollîtum, pe. pro. emollire. L. To make soft or pliaut: to make tender or nice: to effeminate.Emollire aluum. Pli. Tomake one haue a loose belly. Emollire hominem. Li. To effeminate a man and make him nice and tender.Ar tibus mores emollire. Oui. To make more gentle.Pax emollit homines.Tacit.Peace maketh men nice and tender.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ē-mollĭo, ii, ītum, 4, v. a., to make soft, to soften (perh. not ante-Aug.). I.Lit.: humor arcus fundasque et jaculorum amenta emollierat, Liv. 37, 41; Cels. 8, 4: ova macerata, Plin. 10, 60, 80, 167; 18, 7, 17, 77; 20, 2, 6, 11 al.—B.Transf.: colores,
to soften
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make more delicate
, Plin. 35, 17, 57, 198.—II.Trop.A. In a good sense, to make mild or gentle, to mollify: mores, Ov. P. 2, 9, 48: severa praecepta, Aur. Vict. Epit. 48.—B. In a bad sense, to enervate, render effeminate: exercitum (Capua), Liv. 27, 3; cf. id. 38, 49; Tac. H. 3, 2; id. Agr. 11: emollit gentes clementia caeli, Luc. 8, 565: auctoritatem principis,