mitesco

mītesco ( mitisco ), ĕre, v. inch. n. [mitis], to become mild or mellow, to grow ripe (of fruits, to lose their roughness or harsh flavor; class.).

I.

Lit.: nec grandiri frugum fetum posse nec mitescere, Pac. ap. Non. 343, 16 (Trag. Rel. v. 142 Rib.): uvae a sole mitescunt, Cic. Oecon. ap. Gell. 15, 5, 8:

mala,

Plin. 15, 14, 15, § 51:

cornus, arbutus, prunus, piri,

to grow mellow, ripe, Col. 7, 9:

sunt (herbae) quae mitescere flamma, Mollirique queant,

Ov. M. 15, 78:

ervum,

Plin. 22, 25, 73, § 153.—

B.

Transf., in gen., to grow mild, soft; to grow gentle, tame: offirmatod animo mitescit metus, Pac. ap. Non. 406, 9 (Trag. Rel. v. 293 Rib.): nullum est ingenium tantum neque cor tam ferum, quod non... mitiscat malo, Att. ap. Non. 473, 6 (Trag. Rel. v. 684 Rib.): caelum mitescere, arbores frondescere, Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 69:

hiems,

Liv. 23, 19:

annus,

Sil. 15, 505:

frigora,

Hor. C. 4, 7, 9:

Alpium juga,

Plin. 3, 25, 28, § 147:

ferae quaedam numquam mitescunt,

Liv. 33, 45. —

II.

Trop., to grow mild, gentle:

nemo adeo ferus est, ut non mitescere possit,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 39.