clemency Copy link • 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.
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.