The corpus record — Latin

remollesco

to become soft again

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k
De bello Gallico 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

rĕ-mollesco — Lewis & Short

rĕ-mollesco, ĕre,

I v. inch. n., to become soft again, to become or grow soft (class.).

I Lit.: ut Hymettia sole Cera remollescit, softens, Ov. M. 10, 285: sole remollescit quae frigore constitit unda, i. e. melts, id. ib. 9, 661.—

II Trop.: quod ea re (vino) ad laborem ferendum remollescere homines atque effeminari arbitrantur, to be enervated, * Caes. B. G. 4, 2 fin.: si precibus numina justis Victa remollescunt, are softened, touched, Ov. M. 1, 378.

In the wild

remollescere Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 4.2.6
remollescit Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.285
remollescit Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.662
remollescunt Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.378

Where it came from

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