(adjective) : curvus (-vŏs), a, um, root kar-, whence κορώνη; cf.: circus, varus
* Crooked, curved, bent (opp. rectus; mostly poet.).
* Prop.: aratrum,Lucr. 5, 933; 6, 1253; Verg. G. 1, 170: rastri,Cat. 64, 39: culter,Sen. Hippol. 53: falces,Verg. G. 1, 508: calamus,Cat. 63, 22: arbor,Ov. M. 5, 536: arcus,id. ib. 9, 114: dens,id. Am. 3, 10, 14: ungues,Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 4; Hor. Epod. 5, 93: lyra,id. C. 1, 10, 6; 3, 28, 11: crinale,Ov. M. 5, 53: (equi) alvus,Verg. A. 2, 51: carinae,id. G. 1, 360: cavernae,id. A. 3, 674: rates,Prop. 3 (4), 7, 29. litora,Cat. 64, 74; Verg. A. 3, 223; Hor. C. 4, 5, 14; id. Epod. 10, 21; Ov. M. 11, 352; cf. spatium,Sall. H. 4, 20 Dietsch: flumen,winding, crooked,Verg. G. 2, 12; Ov. M. 3, 342: aquae,id. F. 3, 520: aequor,rising on high, boisterous,id. M. 11, 505 al.—Of persons: ita te adgerundā curvom aquā faciam, ut, etc.,Plaut. Cas. 1, 1, 36: arator,bent, stooping,Verg. E. 3, 42; and of one bent by age: anus,Prop. 2 (3), 18, 20. membra,Ov. M. 3, 276: senecta,id. A. A. 2, 670: caelator,Juv. 9, 145: vel gibberosi vel curvi,Dig. 21, 1, 3.
* Trop., crooked, wrong, perverse: mores,Pers. 3, 52.—Subst.: curvum, i, n., that which is crooked or wrong (opp. rectum): scilicet ut possem curvo dignoscere rectum,Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 44: rectum discernis, ubi inter Curva subit,Pers. 4, 12: invenimus qui curva corrigeret,set every thing right,Plin. Ep. 5, 8 (21), 6: hic nobis curva corriget?Sen. Apoc. 8 fin.

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