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deflecto
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(verb) : dē-flecto, xi, xum, 3, and n.
* Act., to bend downwards or aside, to turn aside or in another direction.
* Lit.: ramum olivae,Col. 5, 11, 14; cf.: palmitem,id. 4, 26, 3; Catull. 62, 51; Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 204: tela (Venus),Verg. A. 10, 331: amnis in alium cursum,Cic. Div. 1, 19 fin.: cursum ad Romanos. Liv. 10, 27: vultum ab aliqua re ad aliquid,Val. Max. 5, 10, 1: carinam quolibet,Luc. 5, 789; cf.: rapidum iter,id. 3, 337; novam viam,to turn off, construct in another direction,Liv. 39, 27 fin.
* Neutr., to turn off, turn aside.
* In gen.: lumina,Ov. M. 7, 789; cf.: oculos a cura,Val. Fl. 8, 76: cum ipsos principes aliqua pravitas de via deflexit,Cic. Rep. 1, 44: aliquem ab institutis studiis,Quint. 10, 1, 91: ut declinet a proposito deflectatque sententiam,Cic. Or. 40: si ad verba rem deflectere velimus,id. Caecin. 18, 51: quaedam in senectute deflexit (for which, shortly before, mutavit), Cels. praef.: in ipsos factum deflectitur,Quint. 7, 2, 23: adversarios in suam utilitatem deflectere,id. 4, 1, 71; cf.: dotes puellae in pejus,Ov. R. Am. 325: tragoediam in obscenos risus,id. Tr. 2, 409: perniciosa consilia fortuna deflexit in melius,Sen. Ben. 6, 8, 1: virtutes in vitia,Suet. Dom. 3: se de curriculo petitionis,to withdraw,id. Mur. 22 fin.
* Esp. (late Lat.), gramm. t. t., to inflect, to vary the form of a word: non solet sic deflecti,August. in Psa. 140, 25.
* Lit.: vulgus militum deflectere viā,Tac. H. 2, 70; cf. without via,Suet. Aug. 93 fin.: in Tuscos,Plin. Ep. 4, 1, 3.
* Trop. (freq., but almost exclusively in Cicero): deflexit jam aliquantulum de spatio curriculoque consuetudo majorum,Cic. Lael. 12; so, de via (consuetudo),id. Off. 2, 3, 9: de recta regione,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 68: a veritate,id. Rosc. Com. 16: oratio redeat illuc unde deflexit,id. Tusc. 5, 28, 80: a Domino,Vulg. Sirach 36, 28; 2, 7.
* Act., to bend downwards or aside, to turn aside or in another direction.
* Lit.: ramum olivae,Col. 5, 11, 14; cf.: palmitem,id. 4, 26, 3; Catull. 62, 51; Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 204: tela (Venus),Verg. A. 10, 331: amnis in alium cursum,Cic. Div. 1, 19 fin.: cursum ad Romanos. Liv. 10, 27: vultum ab aliqua re ad aliquid,Val. Max. 5, 10, 1: carinam quolibet,Luc. 5, 789; cf.: rapidum iter,id. 3, 337; novam viam,to turn off, construct in another direction,Liv. 39, 27 fin.
* Neutr., to turn off, turn aside.
* In gen.: lumina,Ov. M. 7, 789; cf.: oculos a cura,Val. Fl. 8, 76: cum ipsos principes aliqua pravitas de via deflexit,Cic. Rep. 1, 44: aliquem ab institutis studiis,Quint. 10, 1, 91: ut declinet a proposito deflectatque sententiam,Cic. Or. 40: si ad verba rem deflectere velimus,id. Caecin. 18, 51: quaedam in senectute deflexit (for which, shortly before, mutavit), Cels. praef.: in ipsos factum deflectitur,Quint. 7, 2, 23: adversarios in suam utilitatem deflectere,id. 4, 1, 71; cf.: dotes puellae in pejus,Ov. R. Am. 325: tragoediam in obscenos risus,id. Tr. 2, 409: perniciosa consilia fortuna deflexit in melius,Sen. Ben. 6, 8, 1: virtutes in vitia,Suet. Dom. 3: se de curriculo petitionis,to withdraw,id. Mur. 22 fin.
* Esp. (late Lat.), gramm. t. t., to inflect, to vary the form of a word: non solet sic deflecti,August. in Psa. 140, 25.
* Lit.: vulgus militum deflectere viā,Tac. H. 2, 70; cf. without via,Suet. Aug. 93 fin.: in Tuscos,Plin. Ep. 4, 1, 3.
* Trop. (freq., but almost exclusively in Cicero): deflexit jam aliquantulum de spatio curriculoque consuetudo majorum,Cic. Lael. 12; so, de via (consuetudo),id. Off. 2, 3, 9: de recta regione,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 68: a veritate,id. Rosc. Com. 16: oratio redeat illuc unde deflexit,id. Tusc. 5, 28, 80: a Domino,Vulg. Sirach 36, 28; 2, 7.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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