mollire

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= For the formula, Otto (_pix_) cites this passage and _Il_ IV 275-77 '[Greek: nephos ... melanteron êute pissa]' and from Latin poetry _AA_ II 657-58 'nominibus mollire licet mala: fusca uocetur/_nigrior Illyrica_ cui _pice_ sanguis erit', _Met_ XII

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
At G. Memmius, advocata contione, quamquam regi infesta plebes erat, et pars in vincula duci jubebat, pars, ni socios sceleris sui aperiret, more majorum de hoste supplicium sumi; dignitati quam irae magis consulens, sedare motus et animos eorum mollire, postremo confirmare, fidem publicam per sese [207] inviolatam fore.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust