pacify Copy link Outline 1. plāco, 1 (to soothe or soften down any one's anger)2. sēdo, 1 (to cause to settle down, assuage, appease)3. lēnio, 4 (to calm down)4. compōno, 3 (to bring together, restore amity between) • pacify: i. e. to quiet, appease: 1. plāco, 1 (to soothe or soften down any one's anger): to p. the wrath of the gods by gifts, p. donis iram deorum, Vet. Lex in Cic. Leg. 2, 9, 22: to p. (propitiate) the immortal gods, numen deorum immortalium p., Caes. B. G. 6, 16: to become p.'d towards any one, animo placari in aliquem, Nep. Pel. 5. Fig.: to p. the angry stomach, ventrem iratum p., Hor. S. 2, 8, 5: Mart. 2. sēdo, 1 (to cause to settle down, assuage, appease): to kindle or p. popular excitement, populi impetum incendere, sedare, Cic. Leg. 3, 10, 24: v. to appease (2). (N.B.--Sedo is not well used with a personal object: express instead the emotion which is assuaged.) 3. lēnio, 4 (to calm down): to p. any one's anger, aliquem iratum l., Cic. Att. 6, 2., 1: to p. a ravenous appetite, stomachum latrantem l., Hor. S. 2, 2., 18. (N.B.--Lenio, strictly, denotes abatement, not perfect appeasing of anger.) 4. compōno, 3 (to bring together, restore amity between): v. to reconcile.