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mollius

mollius is a Latin form of mollis, meaning “soft, gentle”. It is the comparative adverb.

Found 61 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 3.41: Tum ille: His igitur ita positis, inquit, sequitur magna contentio, quam tractatam a Peripateticis mollius—est enim eorum consuetudo dicendi non satis acuta propter ignorationem dialecticae—Carneades tuus egregia qua …

All forms of mollis (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.