Mollesco, mollescis, molléscere. Pli. To ware softer to be parisied from wrath: to be throughly soft.Mollescunt colla inuencis. Catul. Pectora mollescunt, asperitasqúe fugit.Ouid.Their heartes waxe more milde and gentle.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
mollesco, ĕre, v. inch. n. [molleo], to become soft, to soften (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf. liquesco). I.Lit.: rura colit nemo: mollescunt colla juvencis, Cat. 64, 38: ebur, Ov. M. 10, 283: tactu, Plin. 12, 17, 37, 76.—II.Trop.1.To become soft, mild, or gentle: tum genus humanum primum mollescere coepit, Lucr. 5, 1014: pectora, Ov. P. 1, 6, 8.—2.To become effeminate, unmanly: mollescat in undis, Ov. M. 4, 386: ne forte mollescat cor vestrum, Vulg. Jer. 51, 46.