RELIEF Copy link • RELIEFAlleviation, levatio: allevatio: mitigatio (as act or thing; relief administered): levamen, levamentum, allevamentum (as thing; relief received): laxamentum (some remission that falls to one’s lot): delenimentum (not Cic., or Caes.): medicina alicujus rei (remedy for it): fomentum (a soothing application; fomenta dolorum, Cic.). To cause or bring with it some relief, habere levationem alicujus rei (e.g., aegritudinum); levationi or levamento esse: to find or seek for some relief, levationem in venire alicui rei (e.g., doloribus). (In military language), (1) *obsidionis liberatio (from blockade): auxilium, subsidium (help, succor). To come to the relief of, auxilio venire; subsidio proficisci (☞ not suppetias ferre, ire, proficisci, venire, advenire, accurrere, in the best writers). (2) Troops which come for succor, auxilia, -orum, n.; auxilia subsidiaria, -orum, neuter; subsidiae: to send relief, mittere, submittere, auxilium. (In a painting), sublimitas (in pictura, Plin.): eminentia (Cic.): asperitas. [Vid: CONTRAST.] Relievo, opus caelatum, caelatura (but perhaps this is = chasing): toreuma (toreutice seems to have been the art of working in relief PROP. so called): a work in relief, anaglyphum; in bas-relief, protypum; in full relief, ectypum.