• clemency: clēmentia: c. and mildness (of rule), c. mansuetudoque, Cic.: gentleness and c., lenitas et c., Cic. (clementia is often used in this way with some cognate substantive): v. mildness, gentleness. (Clementia, according to Habicht, is the disposition which refuses to be hurried into violent or intemperate measures: lenitas, natural fineness and gentleness of feeling: mansuetudo, mildness as opp. to natural untamed ferocity: Syn. § 252.) With c., clēmenter: Cic.: v. mildly.