Permulceo, permulces, permulsi, permulsum, & permulctÛ, permulcêre. Ci. To appease, assuage, or mitigate: to please: to delight: to stroke softly.Ter manu permulsit eum.Ouidius.Hee stroked him gently with his hande thrice.Permulcere atque allicere.Cic.To delight and allure.Solatia vitæ permulcent animos. Lucret. Arterias leni voce permulcere. Author ad Heren. Prauis voluptatibus aures assistentium permulcere. Quin. To please and delight the eares of hearers with, &c.Sonus & numerus permulcent aures. Cice. Tune and measure delight the ears.Colla draconum permulsit.Ouid.Corda furentum permulsit. Sil. Permulcere iras.Liu.To mitigate and asswage anger.Iucunditate permulcere. Quint. With a great pleasantnesse to delight.Permulcere atque tractare plebem.Liu.With gentle handling to mitigate the people.Sensum voluptate qui permulcet, pellit. Ci. Permulceri voluptate lætissima. Collu. Permulcens. particip. Gently stroking. vt Membra permulcens. Sil. Candida permulcens liquidis vestigia lymphis. Catul. Wa shing hir white feete with water.
Persius, The name of two learned Romaynes.
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per-mulcĕo, mulsi, sum, and ctum, 2, v. a., to rub gently, to stroke.I.Lit.: ut pulverem Manibus isdem, quibus Ulixi saepe permulsi, abluam, Pac. ap. Gell. 2, 26, 13 (Trag. Rel. p. 90 Rib.); so, aliquem manu, Ov F. 4, 551: capite permulso, Varr. ap. Prisc. p. 871 P.: barbam, Liv. 5, 41: alicui malas, Suet. Ner. 1: comas, Ov. M. 2, 733.— B.Transf.1.To touch gently: aram flatu permulcet spiritus austri, blows softly upon, Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 44, 114: arteriae leni voce permulsae, Auct. Her. 3, 12, 21: medicatā lumina virgā, Ov. M. 1, 716; Cat. 62, 162.—2.To soften: cera picem lenitate permulcet, Pall. 10, 11, 2.—II.Trop.A.To charm, please, delight, flatter, fondle: sensum voluptate, Cic. Fin. 2, 10, 32: aures, id. Or. 49, 163: aliquem permulcere atque allicere, id. de Or. 2, 78, 315: aures cantibus, Sil. 11, 292: his verbis vacuas permulceat auris, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 26.—B.To soothe, appease, allay, tame: eorum animis permulsis et confirmatis, Caes. B. G. 4, 6: pectora dictis, Verg. A. 5, 816: liberalibus verbis permulcti sunt, Sall. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 871 P.: iram alicujus, Liv. 39, 23: aliquem mitibus verbis, Tac. A. 2, 34: comitate militem, id. ib. 1, 29: animos, Lucr. 5, 21: senectutem,
Persĭus, ĭi, m., a Roman surname.I. C. Persius, an orator, a contemporary of the Gracchi, Cic. de Or 2, 6, 25; id. Brut. 26, 99; id. Fin. 1, 3, 7.—II. A. Persius Flaccus, a celebrated satirist of Volaterrœ, in Etruria, who died in the reign of Nero, at the age of twenty-eight, A. D. 62, Mart. 4, 29, 7; Quint. 10, 1, 94.—Hence, B. Persĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the poet Persius, Persian: Persianum illud,
that passage of Persius
, Lact. 2, 2, 18.—III. A third Persius, otherwise unknown, has given his name to the Persĭānae Ăquae, perh. near Carthage, App Flor 3, p. 353, 5.