The corpus record — Latin

demulceo

to soften, allure

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Where it lives

De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Heautontimorumenos 1 · 0.91/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 1 · 0.62/10k
Noctes Atticae 5 · 0.45/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

dē-mulcĕo — Lewis & Short

dē-mulcĕo, lsi, mulctum, 2,

I v. a., to stroke down, to stroke caressingly (rare).

I Prop.: caput tibi, Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 14: dorsum, Liv. 9, 16 fin.: aures, Lact. de Ira, 7, 9: crura, Gell. 5, 14, 12.—

II Trop., to soften, allure: aures omnium mentesque demulsit, Gell. 16, 19, 6; cf.: ita motus et demulctus et captus est, ut, etc., id. 3, 13 fin.: eum, id. 18, 2, 1.

In the wild

demulceatis Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 p16
demulceam Terence, Heautontimorumenos 4.5
demulsit Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 16.19.6
demulcentes Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 18.2.2
demulceatis Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.9.16.16
demulcet Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 5.14.12

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Where it came from

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