μᾰλᾰκ-ίζομαι,
future μαλακισθήσομαι [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 38.18 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: aorist ἐμαλακίσθην [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.42, +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 267a, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.175: less frequently in middle form ἐμαλακισάμην, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Apologia Socratis” 33, “Cyr.” 4.2.21 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—to be softened or made effeminate, show weakness or cowardice, οὔτε πλούτου τις.. ἀπόλαυσιν προτιμήσας ἐμαλακίσθη, οὔτε πενίας ἐλπίδι Th. [prev. cited]; of soldiers, μὴ ὄντος χωρίου.. ὅποι ἂν μαλακισθέντες σωθείητε [[ [prev. author] 7.77; κἂν αὐτὸς μαλακίζηται 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.3.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μ. πρὸς τὸν θάνατον meet death like a weakling, [[[prev. author] “Ap.” [prev. cited] ] Refs]
__2 to be softened, appeased, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.29; πρὸς τὸ παρόν [prev. author] 3.40. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 to be weakly, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 605a25, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 1.4, “PSI” 4.420.16 (3rd c.BC), “SIG” 2850.24 (Delph., 2nd c.BC): _accusative_ to 9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc. applied to men in _Attic dialect_, opposed to ἀσθενεῖν] Refs 4th c.BC+], of women, but this is not so;[[compare 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 2.1. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]