mitigation Copy link Outline 1. mītĭgātio2. lĕvāmentum (anything which serves to relieve or mitigate3. more freq. expr. by verb • mitigation: 1. mītĭgātio: Cic. 2. lĕvāmentum (anything which serves to relieve or mitigate: mitigatio is the act of so doing): to operate as a m. of sufferings, esse l. miseriarum, Cic. Fin. 5, 19, 53. In same sense, levamen (esp. poet.): Cic.: Virg. Also, allevamentum (v. rare): Cic. Sull. 23, extr. (sine ullo remedio atque allevamento). 3. more freq. expr. by verb: to seek the m. of human suffering, *in mitigandos hominum dolores miseriasque incumbere: to ask a m. of punishment, *petere ut remittatur aliquid de poena: v. to mitigate.
MITIGATION Copy link • MITIGATIONlevatio; allevatio; mitigatio: levamen, levamentum, allevamentum. Vid: ALLEVIATION.