Meeke: milde: gentle: soft: simple: tractable: not styring: caulme: quiet: without surges or waues: also ripe: melow. Mitis & mansuetus, Ferus & immanis, contraria. Cic. Precanti mitis. Stat. Natura mitis & annis. Ouid. Animo mitior. Hor. Of minde more milde. Vultu mitior. Stat. In countenance more gentle. In hos meos & patriæ meæ milites mitior. Liu. Alimenta mitia. Ouid. Caput mite. Ouid. Animus semper mitis. Ouid. Consilium mite. Ouid. Aura mitior, Ouid. A more quiet and soft coole of winde. Dij mites hostibus. Ouid. Moderata & mitis doctrina: cui opponitur aspera & Dura. Dolorem mitiorem facit patientia. Cic. Pacience asswageth sorow. Exilium mitius. Ouid. Mitissimus & lenissimus homo. Cic. Incendia mitia. Ouid. Ira mitior. Ouid. Ingenium mite. Ouid. Lachrymæ mites. Ouid. Moresex placido & ex concitaro mitissimi. Colum. Conditions very tractable both when he was quiet and when he was sturred. Obitus mitis. Tacit. Mitis oratio. Cic. Mitiorem in partem interpretari. Cic. To take in the better part. Patrocinium mite. Ouid. Spes mitior. Tac. Pietas mitis. Ouid. Succi mites. Ouid. Pœna mitior. Quint. Temperies mitis. Claud. Solator mitis. Stat. Ventus mitior. Ouid. Solum mite. Horat. Verba mitissima. Ouid. Nihil poterat fieri illo mitius. Cicer. No man in the worlde could be more gentle then he. Mite stagnum. Virgil. A quiet and standing poole, or water without sourges. Mitia poma. Virg. Ripe and melow fruites. Vindemia mitis. Virg. Vuæ mites. Virg. Ripe.

I. Lit.: sunt nobis mitia poma, Verg. E. 1, 81: uva, id. G. 1, 448: Bacchus (i. e. vinum), mellow, id. ib. 1, 344: suci, Ov. M. 14, 690: mite solum Tiburis, Hor. C. 1, 18, 2: mitis (fluvius) in morem stagni, Verg. A. 8, 88: flamma, harmless, innoxious, Sil. 16, 120.—

II. Trop., mild, soft, gentle.

A. In gen.: nihil tam vidi mite, nihil tam placatum, quam tum meus frater erat in sororem tuam, Cic. Att. 5, 1, 3: mitis tranquillusque homo, Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 2: homo mitissimus atque lenissimus, Cic. Cat. 4, 5, 10: ex feris et immanibus, mites reddidit et mansuetos, id. Inv. 1, 2, 2.— Poet., with acc., in respect of: nec Mauris animum mitior anguibus, Hor. C. 3, 10, 18. —With dat.: mites hostibus, Ov. P. 2, 1, 48: poenitentiae mitior, towards the penitent, Tac. Agr. 16.—

B. Of things: mitis et misericors animus, Cic. Inv. 1, 55, 106: consilium, Ov. Tr. 1, 5, 5: doctrina, Cic. Mur. 29, 160: malum, blandum atque dolosum, Lucil. ap. Non. 343, 9: mitius exsilium, Ov. Tr. 2, 185: servitium, Prop. 3, 13, 20: opes, acquired through a long peace, Sil. 14, 653: affectus mitiores, Quint. 5, 13, 2: ingenium, Juv. 4, 82; 13, 184: animus, id. 14, 15.—

C. Of speech: Thucydides si posterius fuisset, multo maturior fuisset et mitior, riper and mellower, more palalable, Cic. Brut. 83, 288: mitis et compta oratio, id. Sen. 9, 28: non hac tam atroci, sed illa lege mitissima, causam dicere, id. Verr. 2, 1, 9, 26.—

III. Comically, made soft, mellow with beating: mitis sum equidem fustibus, Plaut. Mil. 5, 31; cf. Ter. Ad. 2, 4, 12.—Hence, adv.: mīte, mildly, soflly, gently (rare; not in Cic.): mite connivere, App. M. 10, p. 285, 4.—Comp.: mitius ille perit, Ov. P. 3, 7, 27. —Sup.: mitissime legatos appellare, Caes. B. G. 7, 43.