CLEMENCY Copy link • CLEMENCYdementia: mamsuetudo (mildness of a private person who does not take vengeance for a mortification suffered; opposed to iracundia, Döderlein’s Synonyms). Sometimes lenitas (gentleness): indulgentia (readiness to overlook). (The words are found in this connection and order). facilitus et elementia (Ter.); clementia mansuetudoque (Cic.); lenitas et clementia (Cic.). To act with clemency, clementia uti: to show clemency to anybody, clementer agere cum aliquo; clementer tractare aliquem; gratiam facere delicti (to pardon a particular crime). With clemency, clementer, leniter, molliter, indulgenter. Clemency of the weather, clementia (biemis, diei, Col.: caeli, Florus and Luc.), or circumlocution by adj. mitis, lenis, etc.