Every one looks out for the "mollia tempora fandi," and "mollia verba" too.
In the Georgics he describes his task as being commanded by Maecenas--'tua, Maecenas, haud mollia iussa.
I procured some specimens of Mollia lepidota and speciosa from Kew, but could not make out that their pistils differed in length in different plants; and in all those which I examined the stigma stood close beneath the uppermost anthers.
Every one looks out for the "mollia tempora fandi," and for "mollia verba" too.
The earliest use of the floral name Caltha occurs in Virgil's second Pastoral, "Mollia luteolâ pingit vaccinia Calthâ.
Humors must be flattered; the 'mollia tempora' must be studied and known: confidence acquired by seeming frankness, and profited of by silent skill.
Virgil had early felt, that without Lycoris, the gelidi fontes and mollia prata would seem less refreshing and less smooth--he had found that the grass and the groves withered at the departure, but revived at the return of Phyllis.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mollia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
