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mansues

mansues · adj

tamed, tame

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

mansŭēs — Lewis & Short

mansŭēs, ŭis, and ētis, adj.manussuesco,

I tamed, tame (ante- and post-class. for mansuetus, v. mansuesco fin.): mansues pro mansueto, dixit Cato in epistola ad filium, Cato ap. Fest. p. 154 Müll.; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 152, 125 Müll.: leonem facere mansuem, Varr. ap. Non. 483, 9 sq.: mitis et mansues, Gell. 5, 14, 21: scio ferocissimos equos atque truces mansuetos et mansues factos, App. M. 7, 23, p. 198, 8: ursa mansues, id. ib. 11, 7, p. 261, 1.—

II Trop., mild, soft, gentle: nunc si me matrem mansues misericordia capsit, Att. ap. Non. 483, 11 (Trag. Rel. v. 453 Rib.): reddam ego te ex fera fame mansuetem, Plaut. As. 1, 2, 19; cf. Plin. 8, 9, 9, § 27: nequeone ego ted interdictis facere mansuetem meis? Plaut. As. 3, 1, 1 Ussing.

In the wild

mansues Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 5.14.21
mansues Apuleius, Metamorphoses 7.23

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. mansués (scan p. 408; entry #6508).

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