I.suppleness, flexibility, softness (class.).
I. Lit.: “mollitudo vocis,” flexibility of the voice, Auct. Her. 3, 11, 20: manuum, Pac. ap. Gell. 2, 26, 13: “assimilis spongiis mollitudo,” Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 136: “viarum,” Vitr. 10, 6 init.; 10, 2, 11.—
II. Trop., softness, susceptibility, weakness: “humanitatis,” Cic. de Or. 3, 40, 161: “corrumpi mollitudine vitiorum,” Arn. 2, 64.