Mitesco, mirescis, mitéscere. Plin. To waxe came, gentle, or tractable: to become caulme or quiet: to waxe ripe.Nemo adeo ferus est, vt non mitescere posit. Hor. Become tractable. Mare mitescit. Apuleius. The sea waxeth caulme.Freta mitescunt.Ouid.Mitescente hyeme.Liu.Winter waxing more milde.Mitescunt discordiæ.Liu.Discorde or variance is appeased or alayed.Ira milescit Ouid.Secula mitescent positis bellis.Virg.Times will waxe more quiet. Mitescere. Plin. To become ripe.Prunorum citò mitescentium. Plin.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
mītesco (mitisco), ĕre, v. inch. n. [mitis], to become mild or mellow, to grow ripe (of fruits, to lose their roughness or harsh flavor; class.). I.Lit.: nec grandiri frugum fetum posse nec mitescere, Pac. ap. Non. 343, 16 (Trag. Rel. v. 142 Rib.): uvae a sole mitescunt, Cic. Oecon. ap. Gell. 15, 5, 8: mala, Plin. 15, 14, 15, 51: cornus, arbutus, prunus, piri,
to grow mellow, ripe
, Col. 7, 9: sunt (herbae) quae mitescere flamma, Mollirique queant, Ov. M. 15, 78: ervum, Plin. 22, 25, 73, 153.—B.Transf., in gen., to grow mild, soft; to grow gentle, tame: offirmatod animo mitescit metus, Pac. ap. Non. 406, 9 (Trag. Rel. v. 293 Rib.): nullum est ingenium tantum neque cor tam ferum, quod non ... mitiscat malo, Att. ap. Non. 473, 6 (Trag. Rel. v. 684 Rib.): caelum mitescere, arbores frondescere, Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 69: hiems, Liv. 23, 19: annus, Sil. 15, 505: frigora, Hor. C. 4, 7, 9: Alpium juga, Plin. 3, 25, 28, 147: ferae quaedam numquam mitescunt, Liv. 33, 45. —II.Trop., to grow mild, gentle: nemo adeo ferus est, ut non mitescere possit, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 39.