become soft; become gentle or effeminate
Latin word, found 10 times in the texts on Socratos.
Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.386: semivir et tactis subito mollescat in undis.”
Ovid, Ex Ponto 1.6.8: pectora mollescunt asperitasque fugit.
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.1014: tum genus humanum primum mollescere coepit.
All forms of mollesco