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verb deponent

com-mōlĭor

2nd PP com-mōlīrī · 3rd PP com-mōlītus · conj. 4th
(), , (ante- and post-class. and very rare); prop.
to set in motion; N. cr; has undertaken figuratively •
to set in motion: commoliri tempestas fulmina coeptat, Lucr. 6, 255.—Trop.: lamenta virum commoliri atque ciere, Lucr. 6, 242 Lachm. N. cr.: dolum aut machinam, Caecil. Stat. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 29, 73. —Transf.: nimis moleste confabricatus commolitusque est originem vocabuli, has undertaken, Favorin. ap. Gell. 3, 19, 3.
Perseus ID: n9432 Key: commolior