GENTLE Copy link • GENTLEOf good birth, ingenuus: liberalis: honesto loco natus: generosus (is stronger; of high, noble birth). Mild, meek, mitis (mild; opposed to acerbus, durus; e.g., in aliquem, toward anybody; of character, affections, etc.; also, poetically, of breezes): lenis (gentle; opposed to vehemens, asper, of persons, character, words; also of winds, Cic.; and sleep, Hor.; toward anybody, in aliquem). (The words are found in this connection and order.) lenis et facilis (of a person’s character): mollis (soft; of breezes, words, etc.): placidus (calm; opposed to turbidus, of persons, of sleep †, etc.). (The words are found in this connection and order.) placidus mollisque (of a person; e.g., reddere aliquem); placidus quietusque: placatus (toward anybody, in aliquem, especially after differences have existed between them; opposed to infestus). (The words are found in this connection and order.) quietus et placatus, mitis et placatus: levis (light; of touch, tactus, Ov.): mansuetus (PROP., tame, of animals; then gentle, etc., of persons). (The words are found in this connection and order.) lenis (or mitis) et mansuetus. The gentle Muses, Musae mansuetae: a gentle sleep, lenis or placidus somnus. To make anybody as gentle as a lamb, aliquem tarn placidum, quam ovem, reddere (Cic., Caecin., 10): a gentle reproof, castigatio clemens: to administer a gentle reproof to anybody, molli brachio objurgare aliquem (so as to spare him a more severe one, Cic., Att., 2, 1) : Gentle (of ascent, etc.), leniter editus; molliter assurgens; leniter or placide acclivis. Vid: GRADUAL.