I.to make soft, mellow: “alicui sandalio caput, humorously for contundo,” Ter. Eun. 5, 7, 4 (imitated: misero mihi mitigabat sandalio caput, Turp. ap. Non. p. 343, 15; cf. “also: mitis sum fustibus,” Plaut. Mil. 5, 1, 31).
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com-mītĭgo (con-m- ), āre, v. a.,