The corpus record — Latin

emollio

emollio · v. a

to make soft

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Where it lives

De Medicina 19 · 1.85/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 45 · 1.14/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 1 · 0.61/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 1 · 0.59/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 1 · 0.58/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 1 · 0.47/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Controversiae 2 · 0.3/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ē-mollĭo — Lewis & Short

ē-mollĭo, ii, ītum, 4, v. a.,

I to make soft, to soften (perh. not ante-Aug.).

I Lit.: humor arcus fundasque et jaculorum amenta emollierat, Liv. 37, 41; Cels. 8, 4: ova macerata, Plin. 10, 60, 80, § 167; 18, 7, 17, § 77; 20, 2, 6, § 11 al.—

B Transf.: colores, to soften, make more delicate, Plin. 35, 17, 57, § 198.—

II Trop.

A In a good sense, to make mild or gentle, to mollify: mores, Ov. P. 2, 9, 48: severa praecepta, Aur. Vict. Epit. 48.—

B In a bad sense, to enervate, render effeminate: exercitum (Capua), Liv. 27, 3; cf. id. 38, 49; Tac. H. 3, 2; id. Agr. 11: emollit gentes clementia caeli, Luc. 8, 565: auctoritatem principis, to weaken, Aur. Vict. Epit. 1.

In the wild

emolliat Celsus, De Medicina 5.26.p25
emollit Lucan, Pharsalia 8.366
emollit Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.4.p3
emolliendus Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 5.51.8
emollit Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 31.9
emollierat Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.37.41.4

6 of 85 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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