The corpus record — Latin

remollio

to make soft again

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Where it lives

Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

rĕ-mollio — Lewis & Short

rĕ-mollio, no

I perf., ītum, 4, v. a., to make soft again, to make soft, soften (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

I Lit.: terram, Col. 2, 11, 9: grana umore remollita, App. Herb. 3, 9: quare ... Salmacis enervet tactosque remolliat artus, softens, weakens, Ov. M. 4, 286.—

II Trop.: eo se inhibitum ac remolitum, quo minus, ut destinarat, etc., softened, mollified, Suet. Aug. 79.

In the wild

remollitum Suetonius, Divus Augustus 79.1
remolliat Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 14.90.20
remolliat Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.286

Where it came from

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