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MorphologyDictionary- Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
- Cooper: Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Brittanicae
- Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
- mollĭtĭa (mollĭcĭa), ae, f., and mol-lĭtĭes (mollĭcĭes), ēi, f. [mollis], movableness, pliability, flexibility, suppleness; softness (class.). I. Lit.:
mollitia cervicum
, Cic. Or. 18, 59: lapidis
, Plin. 36, 22, 45, 162: lanae
, id. 19, 3, 18, 48: carnis
, id. 9, 17, 28, 61: teneritas et mollitia quaedam
, Cic. Fin. 5, 21, 58.—II. Trop., softness, tenderness, susceptibility; weakness, irresolution; effeminacy, voluptuousness, wantonness (cf.: inertia, desidia): quā mollitiā sum animi ac lenitate, numquam mehercule illius lacrimis ac precibus restitissem
, Cic. Sull. 6, 18: agilitas mollitiesque naturae
, sensitive disposition
, id. Att. 1, 17, 4: frontis
, bashfulness
, Plin. Ep. 6, 29, 6: animi est ista mollities, non virtus, inopiam paulisper ferre non posse
, weakness, irresolution
, Caes. B. G. 7, 77: Niciae
, Cic. Att. 12, 26, 2: inertiā et mollitiā animi
, Sall. C. 52, 28: mollitia socordiaque
, id. J. 70, 5: in munditiis, mollitiis deliciisque aetatulam agere
, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 40: civitatum mores lapsi ad mollitiam
, Cic. Leg. 2, 15, 38: mollities luxuriaque
, Just. 1, 7, 13: vocis, Claud. ap. Eutr. 1, 441: Maecenas otio ac mollitiis paene ultra feminam fluens
, Vell. 2, 88, 2; id. 1, 6, 2.—Esp., unchastity, Plin. 28, 8, 27, 106: corporis
, Tac. A. 11, 2.
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