softness, tenderness; weakness, effeminacy
Latin word, found 18 times in the texts on Socratos.
Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.20.5: Summam imperi se consulto nulli discedentem tradidisse, ne is multitudinis studio ad dimicandum impelleretur; cui rei propter animi mollitiem studere omnes videret, quod diutius laborem ferre non possent.
Ovid, Amores 3.8.18: Heu, ubi mollities pectoris illa tui?
Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.4: … enique vespera, dum polentae caseatae modico secus offulam grandiorem in convivas aemulus contruncare gestio, mollitie cibi glutinosi faucibus inhaerentis et meacula spiritus distinentis minimo minus interii: et tamen Athenis pr …
All forms of mollities