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Morphology Lemmata blanda (external link: blanda )Forms: blanda (data provider: perseus), blandae (data provider: perseus), blandaque (data provider: perseus)blandus (external link: blandus )Forms: blanda (data provider: perseus), blandae (data provider: perseus), blandaeque (data provider: perseus), blandam (data provider: perseus), blandaque (data provider: perseus), blandarum (data provider: perseus), blandas (data provider: perseus), blande (data provider: perseus), blandeque (data provider: perseus), blandi (data provider: perseus), blandior (data provider: perseus), blandiore (data provider: perseus), blandiorem (data provider: perseus), blandiores (data provider: perseus), blandioribus (data provider: perseus), blandiorum (data provider: donatus-sup), blandis (data provider: perseus), blandisque (data provider: perseus), blandissima (data provider: perseus), blandissimae (data provider: perseus), blandissimam (data provider: perseus), blandissime (data provider: perseus), blandissimis (data provider: perseus), blandissimo (data provider: perseus), blandissimum (data provider: perseus), blandius (data provider: perseus), blando (data provider: perseus), blandoque (data provider: perseus), blandos (data provider: perseus), blandum (data provider: perseus), blandumque (data provider: perseus), blandus (data provider: perseus), blandust (data provider: perseus)Dictionary Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary Cooper: Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Brittanicae Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary blanda Blanda, ae. f.
I. A maritime town in Lucania , now Maratea , Mel. 2, 4, 9 ; Plin. 3, 5, 10, 72 (in Liv. 24, 20, 5 , Blandae, ārum).—
II. A small maritime town in Hispania Tarraconensis, now Blanes , Mel. 2, 6, 5 (in Plin. 3, 3, 4, 22 , Blandae, ārum). blandus blandus, a, um, adj. [for mlandus; akin to mei/lixos , mollis, mulier; Goth. milds; Engl. mild], of a smooth tongue , flattering , fawning , caressing (class and very freq.).
I. Lit. : blanda es parum , Plaut. Cas. 3, 3, 21 : nemini credo qui large blandu'st dives pauperi , id. Aul. 2, 2, 19 : ut unus omnium homo te vivat numquam quisquam blandior , Ter. Hec. 5, 4, 21 : scis me minime esse blandum , Cic. Att. 12, 5, 4 : unum te puto minus blandum esse quam me , id. ib. 12, 3, 1 : blandum amicum a vero secernere , id. Lael. 25, 95 : (Alcibiades) affabilis, blandus, temporibus callidissime inserviens , Nep. Alcib. 1, 3 : an blandiores (mulieres) in publico quam in privato et alienis quam vestris estis? Liv. 34, 2, 10 : tum neque subjectus solito nec blandior esto , Ov. A. A. 2, 411 : canes , Verg. G. 3, 496 : catulorum blanda propago , Lucr. 4, 999 ; Nemes. Cyneg. 215 ; 230 : columba , Ov. Am. 2, 6, 56 : tigres , Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 604 ; Quint. 9, 4, 133 ; 11, 1, 30 ; 11, 3, 72 al. —
b. Poet. constr.
(a). With gen. : precum , Stat. Achill. 2, 237 .—
(b). With acc. : genas vocemque , Stat. Th. 9, 155 .—
(g). With inf. : blandum et auritas fidibus canoris Ducere quercus , Hor. C. 1, 12, 11 ; Stat. Th. 5, 456 . —
(d). With abl. : chorus implorat..doctā prece blandus ( = blande supplicans dis carmine quod poëta eum docuit. Orell. ad loc.) , Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 135 .—
II. Trop. (mostly of things).
A. Flattering , pleasant , agreeable , enticing , alluring , charming , seductive (cf. blandior, II. B.; blanditia, II.): blandā voce vocare, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 51 Vahl.): ne blandā aut supplici oratione fallamur , Cic. Phil. 7, 9, 26 ; Lucr. 6, 1245 : voces , Verg. A. 1, 670 ; Cat. 64, 139 : preces , Tib. 3, 6, 46 ; Hor. C. 4, 1, 8 ; id. A. P. 395 ; Ov. M. 10, 642 : querelae , Tib. 3, 4, 75 : laudes , Verg. G. 3, 185 : verba , Ov. M. 2, 575 ; 6, 360 : dicta , id. ib. 3, 375 ; 9, 156: os , id. ib. 13, 555 : pectus, Afran. ap. Non. p. 515 .—So, voluptas, Lucr. 2, 966 ; 4, 1081 ; 4, 1259 ; 5, 179; Cic. Tusc. 4, 3, 6 : amor , Lucr. 1, 20 ; Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 49 : Veneris blandis sub armis , Prop. 4 (5), 1, 137: amaracini liquor , Lucr. 2, 847 : tura , Tib. 3, 3, 2 : manus , Hor. C. 3, 23, 18 ; cf. Ov. M. 2, 691 : aquae , id. ib. 4, 344 : caudae , id. ib. 14, 258 al.: otium consuetudine in dies blandius , Liv. 23, 18, 12 : blandiores suci , Plin. 12, 1, 2, 4 ; Suet. Tib. 27 : blandissima litora, Baiae , Stat. S. 3, 5, 96 ; Plin. 9, 8, 9, 32 : actio , Quint. 7, 4, 27 : ministerium, Cod. Th. 10, 10, 12, 1.— With dat. : et blandae superūm mortalibus irae , Stat. Th. 10, 836 : neque admittunt orationes sermonesve... jucunda dictu aut legentibus blanda , Plin. 1 , prooem. 12.—
2. Of persons: filiolus , Quint. 6 , prooem. 8; cf.: nam et voluptates, blandissimae dominae (the most alluring mistresses ), majores partes animi a virtute detorquent, Cic. Off. 2, 10, 37 .—
B. Persuading by caressing , persuasive : nunc experiemur, nostrum uter sit blandior , Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 56 . —Hence, adv. , in three forms, soothingly , flatteringly , courteously , etc.
a. Anteclass. form blandĭter, Plaut. As. 1, 3, 69 ; id. Ps. 5, 2, 3 ; Titin. ap. Non. p. 210, 6 (also id. ib. p. 256, 15), and ap. Prisc. p. 1010 P.—
b. Class. form blandē, Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 9 : compellare hominem , id. Poen. 3, 3, 72 : me adpellare , id. Truc. 1, 2, 61 : adloqui , Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 22 : dicere , id. Ad. 5, 4, 24 ; cf.: blande, leniter, dulciter dicere , Quint. 12, 10, 71 ; and blande ac benedice , Plaut. As. 1, 3, 54 : rogare , Cic. Rosc. Com. 16, 49 : excepti hospitio ab Tullo blande ac benigne , Liv. 1, 22, 5 : quaerere , Suet. Calig. 32 : linguā lambere , Lucr. 5, 1066 : et satiati agni ludunt blandeque coruscant , id. 2, 320 : colere fructus , to treat carefully , gently , id. 5, 1368 (cf. blandimentum, II. B.): flectere cardinem sonantem , softly , carefully , Quint. Decl. 1, 13 al. —Comp. : blandius petere , Cic. de Or. 1, 24, 112 : ad aurem invocabat, Cael. ap. Quint. 4, 2, 124 : moderere fidem , Hor. C. 1, 24, 13 al. —Sup. : blandissime appellat hominem , Cic. Clu. 26, 72 .—
c. blandum = blande: ridere , Petr. 127, 1 .
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