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.
PACIFY Copy link • PACIFYTo calm, tranquillize, aliquem or alicujus animum placare (to set at rest): mitigare (to mitigate): lenire or delinire (to assuage): permulcere (to appease by endearment, by gentle words). (The words are found in this connection and order.) alicujus animum lenire et placare, placare et mitigare. To pacify the anger of anyone, alicujus iram lenire, mollire, permulcere, placare, sedare: to pacify the multitude, multitudinem, plebem reprimere: to pacify a disturbance, seditionem lenire or sedare: to pacify pain, dolorem mitigare. To appease, Vid: PACK, s. Bundle, sarcina, sarcinula (as a burden): fascis (general term): manipulus (such as may be carried in the hand). Of hounds, *canum venaticorum turba. Of men (contemptuously), turba; grex.