melt down

“Christian ships in the mouth of the harbor had flanked and retarded this naval attack.] 63 Chalcondyles most absurdly supposes, that Constantinople was sacked by the Asiatics in revenge for the ancient calamities of Troy; and the grammarians of the xvth century are happy to melt down the uncouth appellation of Turks into the more classical name of Teucri.]”

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire