I.to allure, wheedle, flatter, deceive with fair words, to dupe, cajole (mostly ante-class.): dictis lenibus lactare aliquem, Att. ap. Non. 16, 17: “frustrando lactans,” id. ib.: “ita me amor lapsum animi ludificat...retinet, lactat largitur,” Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 9: “animos,” Ter. And. 5, 4, 9; 4, 1, 24: “si te lactaverint peccatores,” Vulg. Prov. 1, 10: “nec lactes quemquam labiis tuis,” id. ib. 24, 28.
lacto , āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a. lacio,