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μαλθα^κ-ός , ή, όν, Aeol. μόλθακος Alc.Oxy.1789.1 ii 3:—
A.soft,
I. of things subject to touch, “ἄνθεα” h.Hom.30.15; δρόσος, γυῖα, Pi.P.5.99, N.4.4; “γνόφαλλον” Alc.34; “τύλα” Sapph.50; σιαγόνας μαλθακὰς τίθησι, of a boxer, S.Fr.112; μέχρις οὗ （ευ Pap.) . . “τὸ βρέγμα τῷ σκίπωνι μαλθακὸν θῶμαι” Herod.8.8; of ground, stoneless, “χῶρός ἐστι μ.” A.Fr.199.5; “τὰ μ. γαίας” E.Hipp.1226; “χρώς” Id.Med.1075; μ. τινά, opp. στερεόν, Pl.Phdr.239c; μ. ὕδατα, of marsh water, Hp.Aër.1; μ. πῦρ a slow fire, Id.Ulc.12; μ. νηδύες relaxed, Id.Aër.7: Comp. “ωτέρα σικυοῦ” Theopomp.Com.72: Sup., Eup.319. Adv. -κῶς, κατακεῖσθαι to recline on soft cushions, Ar.Ach.70; φιλήσατόν με μ. ib. 1200.
II. mostly metaph., faint-hearted, cowardly, “αἰχμητής” Il. 17.588; “ὄκνος” Alc.Oxy.l.c.; “μηδὲ μ. γένῃ” A.Eu.74; “τὸ μ. βίου” E. Supp.883; μ. τι ἐνδιδόναι show signs of relenting, Id.Hel.508; also, weak, feeble, Ar.V.714.
b. = κίναιδος, Cael.Aur.TP4.131.
2. in good sense, gentle, mild, “ὕπνος” Hes.Fr.121.4; “μαλθακὰ κωτίλλων” Thgn.852; οἶνος ὡς -ώτατος mild, weak, Hp.Morb.2.44; μ. φωνά, ἀοιδά, κοινωνία, φθέγμα, Pi.P.4.137, N.9.49, P.1.98,8.31; “μ. ὀμμάτων βέλος” A.Ag.742 (lyr.); “μ. λόγοι” S.Ph.629; “γῆρυς” Ar.Av.233 (lyr.); ἐς τὸ μ. προσάγεσθαι to bring to a mild temper, E.Or.714; ὀργὴ γέροντος μ. mellow temper, S.Fr.894; “μεταστρέφεσθαι πρὸς τὸ -ώτερον” Ar.Ra. 539 (lyr.); of pain, -ωτέρας ποιεῖν [τὰς ὠδῖνας] Pl.Tht.149d. Adv. gently, mildly, “τὸν κρατοῦντα -κῶς” A.Ag.951; “σκληρὰ μ. λέγειν” S.OC 774: neut. as Adv., “μαλθακόν σφ᾽ ἐπόψεται” A.Ag.1642: Comp. -ωτέρως, παραμυθούμενοι Pl Sph.230a.—Mainly poet., esp. Lyr. and Trag. (μαλακός being the Prose word), but also in Hp. and Pl.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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