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mollĭtĭa (mollĭcĭa ), ae, f., and mol-lĭtĭes (mollĭcĭes ), ēi, f. mollis,
I.movableness, pliability, flexibility, suppleness; softness (class.).
II. Trop., softness, tenderness, susceptibility; weakness, irresolution; effeminacy, voluptuousness, wantonness (cf.: “inertia, desidia): quā mollitiā sum animi ac lenitate, numquam mehercule illius lacrimis ac precibus restitissem,Cic. Sull. 6, 18: “agilitas mollitiesque naturae,sensitive disposition, id. Att. 1, 17, 4: “frontis,bashfulness, Plin. Ep. 6, 29, 6: “animi est ista mollities, non virtus, inopiam paulisper ferre non posse,weakness, irresolution, Caes. B. G. 7, 77: “Niciae,Cic. Att. 12, 26, 2: “inertiā et mollitiā animi,Sall. C. 52, 28: “mollitia socordiaque,id. J. 70, 5: “in munditiis, mollitiis deliciisque aetatulam agere,Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 40: “civitatum mores lapsi ad mollitiam,Cic. Leg. 2, 15, 38: “mollities luxuriaque,Just. 1, 7, 13: vocis, Claud. ap. Eutr. 1, 441: “Maecenas otio ac mollitiis paene ultra feminam fluens,Vell. 2, 88, 2; id. 1, 6, 2.—Esp., unchastity, Plin. 28, 8, 27, § 106: “corporis,Tac. A. 11, 2.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (14):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 12.26.2
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 1.17.4
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 7.77
    • Cicero, For Sulla, 6.18
    • Plautus, Pseudolus, 1.2
    • Tacitus, Annales, 11.2
    • Sallust, Catilinae Coniuratio, 52
    • Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum, 70
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 19.48
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 9.61
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 6.29.6
    • Cicero, De Legibus, 2.15
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 5.21
    • Cicero, Orator, 18.59
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