Mítigo, mítigas, pen. cor. mitigâre. Cic.To mitigate: to swage: to appease: to make melow or ripe.Irasci & Mitigari, contraria.Cic.Reconciliare & mitigare sibi aliquem.Cic.To reconcile and appease ones displeasure toward him.Animum mitigate.Cic.Dolorem mitigare.Cic.Febrem quiete & abstinentia mitigauit.Quintil.With rest and abstinence he asswaged the feuer.Iras mitigare.Ouid.Labores gloria mitigantur.Cic.Seueritatem acerbam multis condimentis humanitatis mitigare.Cic.To alay or temper.Tristitiam mitigat & relaxat risus.Cic.Mirth asswageth & refresheth heaninesse. Agrum syluestrem mitigare flammis & ferro. Horat. Cibum mitigare.Cic.To seeth meate and make it tender. Mitigare.Cic.To make melow or ripe. Maturitate alia Mitigauerit, alia torruerit. Plin.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
mītĭgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [mitis-ago], to make mild, soft, or tender, make ripe or mellow; to make tame, to tame (class.). I.Lit.: cum aestivā maturitate alia mitigaverit, alia torruerit, Cic. Rep. 4, 1, 6 (cited ap. Non. 343, 21): mitiget auctumnus, quod maturaverit aestas, Aus. Idyll. 8: cibum, to make soft or tender, to soften by boiling or roasting, Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 151.—Comically: misero mihi mitigabat sandalio caput, mellowed, broke, Turp. ap. Non. l. l.: hic, qui dura sedens porrecto saxa leone Mitigat, i. e.
makes soft for sitting on by spreading over them a lion's skin
, Mart. 9, 44, 2: Indus agros, laetificat et mitigat,