con-formo, āvi, ātum, 1
* V. a., to form, fashion, shape symmetrically or skilfully (several times in Cic.; elsewhere very rare).
* Prop.: si mundum aedificatum esse, non a naturā conformatum putarem,Cic. N. D. 3, 10, 26: ad majora quaedam nos natura genuit et conformavit,id. Fin. 1, 7, 23: quercus conformata securi, * Cat. 19, 3: (ursa) fetum lambendo conformat et fingit,licks into shape,Gell. 17, 10, 3: ova in volucrum speciem, * Col. 8, 5, 10: imaginem tauri,Gell. 13, 9, 6.
* Trop.: puellam, Afran. ap. Non. p. 174, 32: animum et mentem cogitatione hominum excellentium,Cic. Arch. 6, 14: ipse me conformo ad ejus voluntatem,id. Fam. 1, 8, 2: mores,id. Fin. 4, 2, 5; cf.: liberos parente orbatos sibi et posteris,Tac. A. 4, 8; Cic. Mur. 29, 60: vocem hujus hortatu praeceptisque,id. Arch. 1, 1; cf. * Quint. 11, 3, 45: orationem constructione verborum,Cic. de Or. 1, 5, 17 (but in Lucr. 4, 114, the right read. is confirmem).

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