Lenio, lenis, leníui & lenij, lenîtum, pen. prod. lenîre. Columell. To polish or make smooth. vt, Cum truncum decideris ferramento plagam lenito. Colum. Lenire. Salast. To pacisie: to moderate: to asswage: to appease: to treate ntly: to comfort.Quò illam mihi lenirent miseriam.Terent.That they might wage and mitigate my sorrow.Leniter ægritudo.Cic.The sickenesse is mitigated.Lenire animos concordia.Cic.Animum dictis.Virg.To pacisie mens mindes with gentle wordes.Clamorem. Horat. Curas somno. Virg.Omne desyderinm literis mittendis, accipiendisque leniam Cic.I will pacisis and comfort all my great longing for you with, &c.Dolentem lenire solando.Virg.With comforting to case one in sorrow. Dolorem leniuit morte. Sil. Dolores lenire requie.Ouid. Moras lenire. Ouid.Noctern lenire. Propert. Numina leniri possunt.Ouid.May be pacisied.Pauorem hospitij leniuit. Sil. Remedia aspera molli manu & leui lenire. Quint. To mittigate sharpe & biting playsters with tender & gentle handling. Panis leniet stomachum. Hor. Superos lenite rogando.Ouid.To pacisie the goddes with prayers.Tempestates. Plin. To appease tempestes.Tempus lenit odium.Ouid.Tigres & leones lenire. Horat. Timorem lenire. Virg. Lenibo etiam facit in futuro. Propert.
Lenis, & hoc lene. That hath no roughuesse: pleasant to taste or touch: mild: soft. Lene & Asperum, contraria. Cic.Aura lenis.Ouid.A soft and gentle coole of winde.Lenissimus Auster, & mitis.Cic.Lenes cibi & Acres. Apud Celsum apponuntur. Pleasant meates without biting or egernesse.Flabra lenia.Virg. Tormentum lene. Horat. Merum lene. Horat. Venenum lene. Cic.Lenis sonus.Cic.A soft gentle sound.Veatus lenis.Virg.Spiritus lenis. Tibul. Volatus lenis. Ouid.Lene vinum.Terent.A delicions & pleasant wine not rough in taste. Lenis transfertur ad animum.Terent.Full of sufferance: hardly angrie: milde: meeke: soft of conditions: gentle: modest.Carmina Lenia. Lucret. Consilium lene. Horat. Dominus non lenis. Horat. A sharpe and cruell maister.Lenissimus homo & natura, & consuetudine, & disciplina.Cic.A very mild and gentle person. Ira lenior. Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
lēnĭo, īvi or ĭi, ītum, 4 (imperf. lenibant, Verg. A. 4, 528: lenibat, id. ib. 6, 468; fut. lenibunt, Prop. 3, 20 (4, 21), 32), v. a. and n. [1. lenis]. I.Act., to make soft or mild, to soften, mollify, alleviate, mitigate, assuage, soothe, calm (syn.: mitigo, placo, sedo, mulceo). A.Lit.: lapsana alvum lenit et mollit, Plin. 20, 9, 37, 96: nuces leniunt saporem caeparum, id. 23, 8, 77, 147: tumores, id. 33, 6, 35, 110: collectiones impetusque, id. 22, 25, 58, 122: stomachum latrantem, Hor. S. 2, 2, 18: volnera,
to assuage, heal
, Prop. 3, 20 (4, 21), 32: clamorem,
to soften, moderate
, Hor. C. 1, 27, 7: inopiam frumenti lenire,
to make amends for, cause to be less felt
, Sall. J. 91.—B.Trop., to render mild, to appease, calm, pacify, etc.: senem illum tibi dedo ulteriorem, ut lenitum reddas, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 31: illum saepe lenivi iratum, Cic. Att. 6, 2, 2: temperantia animos placat ac lenit, id. Fin. 1, 14, 47: te ipsum dies leniet, aetas mitigabit, id. Mur. 31, 65: epulis multitudinem imperitam, id. Phil. 2, 45, 116: desiderium crebris epistolis, id. Fam. 15, 21, 1: se multa consolatione, id. Q. Fr. 3, 5, 4: diem tempusque ... leniturum iras, Liv. 2, 45: seditionem, id. 6, 16: animum ferocem, Sall. J. 11: saepius fatigatus lenitur, id. ib. 111, 3: lenire dolentem Solando, Verg. A. 4, 393.— II.Neutr., to become soft or mild, to be softened, mitigated: dum irae leniunt, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 100; cf. Brix ad loc.
