Mulceo, mulces, mulsi, mulsum, & mulctum, secundum Priscianum, mulcére. Virg.To pacisie: to appease: to mitigate: to asswage: to please: to delight: to pollish: to annoynt.Delphinus mulcetur symphoniæ cantu. Plini. The Dolphyu is delighted with musicke.Aethera mulcebant cantu.Virg.Ceruix mulcetur dextra. Cicero. The necke is stroked softely with the hande.Feras mulcere.Ouid.To make tame and gentle.Voluptas animum mulcet.Ouid.Pleasure mitigateth the minde.Auræ mulcent florem. Catul. Fluctus mulcere.Virg.To make quiet the waues.Carmina mea mulcebunt mentes vestras. Oui. Shall swage and please.Pastor arundinco carmine mulcet oues. Virgil. The sheepehearde delighteth his sheepe with playing on a pipe.Dictis mœrentia pectora mulcet.Virg.He ass wageth sorowful heartes with comfortable wordes.Pocula mulcere succis Lyæi. Sil. Procellas.Cic.To quiet.Carmine mulcere puellas. Hor. Vulnera mulcet ope.Ouid.
Mulsum, si calidum bibatur, vocem permulcet: si frigidum, exasperat. Cic. Miscere mulsum. Cicero. To giue one mulse honie or sweete wine to drincke.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
mulcĕo, si, sum (rarely mulctum), 2, v. a. [Sanscr. root marc, take hold of; Gr. ma/rptw, ma/rptis; cf. mulco], to stroke; to touch or move lightly (syn. palpo; poet. and in post-Aug. prose). I.Lit.: manu mulcens barbam, Ov. F. 1, 259: caput, Quint. 11, 3, 158: vitulum, Ov. A. A. 2, 341: colla, id. M. 10, 118: mulcebant Zephyri flores,