Clementia, est illius qui nunquam irascitur. Cicer.Mercy: clemencie: gentlenesse: pacience: temperatenesse.Lenitas & clementia.Cic.Clementia & mansuetudo.Cic.Clementia in crudelitatem conuersa.Cic.Crudelitas & Clementia, contraria.Cic.Ducis clementia.Ouid.Clementia æstatis.Plin. iun.Temperatenesse of summer.Clementia hyemis. Col. A mylde and temperate winter.Clementia in supplices. Plin. Plena omnia clementiæ, mansuetudinis, humanitatis.Cic. Admirabilis clementia.Cic.Mitis clementia.Stat. Popularis clementia. Cic.Confugere ad clementiam alicuius.Cic.To flee or appeale to ones mercy.Impedire clementiam alicuius.Cic.Acceptum referre aliquid clementiæ alterius.Cic.Iudicis clementiam expectare. Tac. Magna est in illo clementia.Ouid. Vti clememtia. Cic.
clēmentĭa, ae, f. [1. clemens]. I.A calm, tranquil state of the elements, calmness, mildness, tranquillity (like clemens in this signif. mostly post-Aug.): clementia ventorum, tranquillitas maris, App. de Deo Socr. p. 52, 1: soli caelique, Flor. 3, 3, 18; cf.: emollit gentes clementia caeli, Luc. 8, 366: aestatis, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 5: hiemis, Col. 5, 5, 6: nascentis anni, id. 11, 3, 9: diei, id. 9, 13, 4: Nili, Stat. Th. 3, 527.—II. (Acc. to clemens, II. B.) Indulgent, forbearing conduct towards the errors and faults of others, moderation, mildness, humanity, forbearance, benignity, clemency, mercy (the class. signif.; very freq., esp. in prose; syn.: benignitas, comitas, lenitas, mansuetudo, etc.): clementia (est), per quam animi temere in odium alicujus concitati invectio comitate retinetur, Cic. Inv. 2, 54, 164: clementia est temperantia animi in potestate ulciscendi, vel lenitas... in constituendis poenis, Sen. Clem. 2, 3: facilitas et clementia, Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 7; cf. Cic. Off. 1, 25, 88: illam clementiam mansuetudinemque nostri imperii tantam in crudelitatem inhumanitatemque esse conversam, id. Verr. 2, 5, 44, 115; id. Deiot. 15, 43; id. Lig. 3, 10: lenitas et clementia, id. Att. 14, 19, 2: clementia et probitas vestra, Sall. H. 1, 41, 1 Dietsch; Liv. 3, 58, 4; Ov. M. 8, 57; Quint. 9, 2, 28; Tac. H. 3, 19: juris, Quint. 7, 4, 18 Spald., and antith. to jus asperius, id. 9, 2, 90; opp. severitatem, Sen. Clem. 1, 1, 4: elephanti contra minus validos, Plin. 8, 7, 7, 23: leonis in supplices, id. 8, 16, 19, 48; and as an attribute of princes, id. 8, 7, 7, 48; Vop. Aur. 44; whence a title ofthe emperors, v. IV.—Less freq., B.Kindness, sympathy: satrapes violare clementiam quam regis opes minui maluit, Nep. Alcib. 10, 3.—III. Clementia, personified as a deily, the goddess of grace, Plin. 2, 7, 5, 14; Stat. Th. 12, 482 sq.; Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 6 sq.—IV.A title of the emperor: Clementia tua,