molles

Any male citizen being penetrated by anybody was, of course, strictly forbidden (and those who defied this were called molles mares)--a threat to the masculine identity (vir) and all.

Archive 2006-06-01 2006

Any male citizen being penetrated by anybody was, of course, strictly forbidden (and those who defied this were called molles mares)--a threat to the masculine identity (vir) and all.

"Homosexual" relationships in antiquity 2006

Menelaus, and most amorous young men, have been such in all ages, molles ac suaves, as Baptista

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Divitiae molles — — — with their variety of dishes, many such maladies of body and mind get in, which the poor man knows not of.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Fixis ardens obtutibus haeret; so she will do by him, drink to him with her eyes, nay, drink him up, devour him, swallow him, as Martial's Mamurra is remembered to have done: Inspexit molles pueros, oculisque comedit, &c.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

* [6749] Eos, quibus indulgere videtur, quibus parcere, molles venturis malis (Deus) format.

Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

* [3125] Eos, quibus indulgere videtur, quibus parcere, molles venturis malis (Deus) format.

Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

Accordingly, when Tityrus, seeing the lengthening shadows, invites Melibaeus to go home and pass the night with him, he promises him _mild_ apples and soft chestnuts, -- _mitia poma, castaneae molles_.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

The scholiasts and grammarians preserve seven fragments (Morel 110-11), the most interesting being the four lines on the death of Tibullus: 'Te quoque Vergilio comitem non aequa, Tibulle,/Mors iuuenem campos misit ad Elysios,/ne foret aut elegis molles qui fleret amores/aut caneret forti regia bella pede'.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

= Ovid often mentions the alternating pattern of elegiac verse: compare xvi 11 _numeris ... imparibus ... uel aequis_ and the passages there cited, _Am_ III i 8 (of Elegy) 'et, puto, pes illi _longior alter_ erat', and _EP_ III iv 85-86 'ferre etiam molles elegi tam uasta triumphi/pondera _disparibus_ non potuere _rotis_'.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid