“flatter” in Latin

prelum (a press of any kind).

assentari alicui (to express assent, whether from conviction or from hypocrisy; in opposed to to adversari. It denotes the flattery which shuns contradicting a person, θωπεύειν): blandiri (to say what is agreeable to another, ἀρεσκεύειν; also to endeavor to curry favor by winning ways, marks of affection, etc.): adulari (to endeavor to curry favor at the expense of self-degradation, like κολακεύειν; aliquem, seldom alicui; never in Cic.): aberrare in melius (of a painter; after Plin., Ep., 4, 28, extr.): nimium esse in alicujus laudibus (of an orator praising anybody too highly). To curry favor with anybody by flattering him, assentatiuncula quadam aucupari alicujus gratiam. I flatter myself (parenthetically), quomodo mini persuadeo (Cic., De Or., 2, 8, 122). Don’t suppose that I say this to flatter you, noli putare me hoc auribus tuis dare (Cic.): to flatter one’s self with the hope etc., in eam spem adduci, ut etc.; sperare fore, ut etc. I flatter myself with the hope that, etc., magna me spes tenet with infinitive. To be trained to flattery by long continuance of servitude, diuturna servitute ad nimiam assentationem erudiri. The desire of flattery, assentandi libido (Tac., Hist., 1, 1, 2).