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(v. a.P. a.) : flecto, xi, xum, 3, v. a. and n. root in Gr. φολκός, bandy-legged; φάλκης, the bent rib of a ship; L. falx; falco, so called from the curve of its claws or beak; cf. Germ. Falke; Engl. falcon.
* Act., to bend, bow, curve, turn, turn round (freq. and class.; syn.: plecto, plico, curvo).
* Lit.
* Neutr., to turn, go, or march in any direction (post-Aug.).
* Trop.
* In gen., to bend, turn, direct: ducere multimodis voces et flectere cantus,Lucr. 5, 1406: vocem,Ov. Am. 2, 4, 25: qui teneros et rudes cum acceperunt, inficiunt et flectunt, ut volunt,Cic. Leg. 1, 17, 47; cf.: imbecillitatem animorum torquere et flectere,id. ib. 1, 10, 29: suam naturam huc et illuc torquere ac flectere,id. Cael. 6, 13: vitam flectere fingereque,id. Sull. 28, 79: mentes suas ad nostrum imperium nomenque,id. Balb. 17, 39: aliquem a proposito,Liv. 28, 22, 11: scribentis animum a vero,id. 1 praef. 5: animus ab aliqua opinione flectendus,Quint. 4, 2, 80: animos ad publica carmina,Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 23: quo vobis mentes ... dementes sese flexere viaï? Enn. ap. Cic. de Sen. 6, 16 (Ann. v. 209 ed. Vahl.): est viri et ducis oblata casu flectere ad consilium,Liv. 28, 44, 8: juvenis cereus in vitium flecti,Hor. A. P. 163: quod procul a nobis flectat Fortuna gubernans,turn aside, avert,Lucr. 5, 108.
* In partic.
* To bend (in opinion or in will), to move, persuade, prevail upon, overcome, soften, appease (cf.: moveo, afficio): quibus rebus ita flectebar animo atque frangebar, ut, etc.,Cic. Sull. 6, 18: sed quid te oratione flectam? ... qua re flecte te, quaeso,id. Phil. 1, 14, 35: facile Achivos flexeris, Enn. ap. Gell. 11, 4, 3 (Trag. v. 229 ed. Vahl.): judices,Quint. 6, 1, 9: flectere mollibus jam durum imperiis,Hor. C. 4, 1, 6: precibus si flecteris ullis,Verg. A. 2, 689: flectere si nequeo Superos, Acheronta movebo,id. ib. 7, 312; cf.: nisi dii immortales suo numine prope fata ipsa flexissent,Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 19: desine fata deum flecti sperare precando,Verg. A. 6, 376: animos commutare atque omni ratione flectere,Cic. de Or. 2, 52 fin.: ingenium alicujus aversum,Sall. J. 102, 3: si quem a proposito spes mollitiave animi flexisset,divert, dissuade,Liv. 28, 22, 11: dictis nostris sententia flexa est, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 257 Müll. (Ann. v. 264 ed. Vahl.): si flectitur ira deorum,Ov. M. 1, 378: cf. id. Tr. 3, 5, 41: hortaturque simul flectitque labores,soothes,Stat. S. 5, 1, 119: ad deditionem primos,Liv. 5, 43, 1.—Mid.: plurimum valet miseratio, quae judicem flecti non tantum cogit, sed, etc.,to let himself be moved,Quint. 6, 1, 23: flexi in misericordiam,Amm. 12, 27.
* (Acc. to I. A. 2.) To turn aside from, to avoid a thing: ut eam (viam) flectas, te rogo,Cic. Att. 11, 18, 2 (but B. and K. ex conj. C. F. Hermann read ira, v. a. sup.); cf.: flexit viam,Liv. 1, 60, 1: dolo a se flexos imputavit civilis,Tac. H. 5, 24.
* To refer to or apply to any one: versus qui in Tiberium flecterentur,Tac. A. 6, 29: Augustus quaedam ex horrida illa antiquitate ad praesentem usum flexisset,id. ib. 4, 16.
* In grammar.
* To form a word from another language: verba derivare, flectere, conjungere,Quint. 8, 3, 36: hoc vocabulum (pollex) de Graeco flexum est,Gell. 4, 3 fin.
* To decline, conjugate, inflect, Varr. L. L. 10, 2, 29 al.
* Flectere syllabam, to mark with the circumflex accent, and hence, to lengthen, Quint. 1, 5, 23 Spald. and Zumpt.
* Lit.: cum procul hos laevo flectentes limite cernunt,Verg. A. 9, 372: ex Gabino in Tusculanos flexere colles,Liv. 3, 8, 6; Hasdrubal ad Oceanum flectit,id. 28, 16, 3: inde Vitellius Cremonam flexit,Tac. H. 2, 70: in Capitolium,Suet. Tib. 20.
* Trop., of thought or speech, to turn in any direction: ad providentiam sapientiamque,Tac. A. 13, 3: in ambitionem,id. ib. 4, 37: a veneratione Augusti orsus flexit ad victorias Tiberii,id. ib. 1, 34.—Hence, flexus, a, um, P. a.
* Lit., bent, winding: error,Ov. M. 8, 160: zodiacus circa Cancrum Capricornumque flexior,Mart. Cap. 8, § 878.—In neutr. plur. subst.: collium flexa, Minuc. Fel. Octav. 17.
* Trop., of tones, lengthened: infinito magis illa flexa et circumducta sunt,Quint. 11, 3, 172.
* Act., to bend, bow, curve, turn, turn round (freq. and class.; syn.: plecto, plico, curvo).
* Lit.
* Neutr., to turn, go, or march in any direction (post-Aug.).
* Trop.
* In gen., to bend, turn, direct: ducere multimodis voces et flectere cantus,Lucr. 5, 1406: vocem,Ov. Am. 2, 4, 25: qui teneros et rudes cum acceperunt, inficiunt et flectunt, ut volunt,Cic. Leg. 1, 17, 47; cf.: imbecillitatem animorum torquere et flectere,id. ib. 1, 10, 29: suam naturam huc et illuc torquere ac flectere,id. Cael. 6, 13: vitam flectere fingereque,id. Sull. 28, 79: mentes suas ad nostrum imperium nomenque,id. Balb. 17, 39: aliquem a proposito,Liv. 28, 22, 11: scribentis animum a vero,id. 1 praef. 5: animus ab aliqua opinione flectendus,Quint. 4, 2, 80: animos ad publica carmina,Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 23: quo vobis mentes ... dementes sese flexere viaï? Enn. ap. Cic. de Sen. 6, 16 (Ann. v. 209 ed. Vahl.): est viri et ducis oblata casu flectere ad consilium,Liv. 28, 44, 8: juvenis cereus in vitium flecti,Hor. A. P. 163: quod procul a nobis flectat Fortuna gubernans,turn aside, avert,Lucr. 5, 108.
* In partic.
* To bend (in opinion or in will), to move, persuade, prevail upon, overcome, soften, appease (cf.: moveo, afficio): quibus rebus ita flectebar animo atque frangebar, ut, etc.,Cic. Sull. 6, 18: sed quid te oratione flectam? ... qua re flecte te, quaeso,id. Phil. 1, 14, 35: facile Achivos flexeris, Enn. ap. Gell. 11, 4, 3 (Trag. v. 229 ed. Vahl.): judices,Quint. 6, 1, 9: flectere mollibus jam durum imperiis,Hor. C. 4, 1, 6: precibus si flecteris ullis,Verg. A. 2, 689: flectere si nequeo Superos, Acheronta movebo,id. ib. 7, 312; cf.: nisi dii immortales suo numine prope fata ipsa flexissent,Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 19: desine fata deum flecti sperare precando,Verg. A. 6, 376: animos commutare atque omni ratione flectere,Cic. de Or. 2, 52 fin.: ingenium alicujus aversum,Sall. J. 102, 3: si quem a proposito spes mollitiave animi flexisset,divert, dissuade,Liv. 28, 22, 11: dictis nostris sententia flexa est, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 257 Müll. (Ann. v. 264 ed. Vahl.): si flectitur ira deorum,Ov. M. 1, 378: cf. id. Tr. 3, 5, 41: hortaturque simul flectitque labores,soothes,Stat. S. 5, 1, 119: ad deditionem primos,Liv. 5, 43, 1.—Mid.: plurimum valet miseratio, quae judicem flecti non tantum cogit, sed, etc.,to let himself be moved,Quint. 6, 1, 23: flexi in misericordiam,Amm. 12, 27.
* (Acc. to I. A. 2.) To turn aside from, to avoid a thing: ut eam (viam) flectas, te rogo,Cic. Att. 11, 18, 2 (but B. and K. ex conj. C. F. Hermann read ira, v. a. sup.); cf.: flexit viam,Liv. 1, 60, 1: dolo a se flexos imputavit civilis,Tac. H. 5, 24.
* To refer to or apply to any one: versus qui in Tiberium flecterentur,Tac. A. 6, 29: Augustus quaedam ex horrida illa antiquitate ad praesentem usum flexisset,id. ib. 4, 16.
* In grammar.
* To form a word from another language: verba derivare, flectere, conjungere,Quint. 8, 3, 36: hoc vocabulum (pollex) de Graeco flexum est,Gell. 4, 3 fin.
* To decline, conjugate, inflect, Varr. L. L. 10, 2, 29 al.
* Flectere syllabam, to mark with the circumflex accent, and hence, to lengthen, Quint. 1, 5, 23 Spald. and Zumpt.
* Lit.: cum procul hos laevo flectentes limite cernunt,Verg. A. 9, 372: ex Gabino in Tusculanos flexere colles,Liv. 3, 8, 6; Hasdrubal ad Oceanum flectit,id. 28, 16, 3: inde Vitellius Cremonam flexit,Tac. H. 2, 70: in Capitolium,Suet. Tib. 20.
* Trop., of thought or speech, to turn in any direction: ad providentiam sapientiamque,Tac. A. 13, 3: in ambitionem,id. ib. 4, 37: a veneratione Augusti orsus flexit ad victorias Tiberii,id. ib. 1, 34.—Hence, flexus, a, um, P. a.
* Lit., bent, winding: error,Ov. M. 8, 160: zodiacus circa Cancrum Capricornumque flexior,Mart. Cap. 8, § 878.—In neutr. plur. subst.: collium flexa, Minuc. Fel. Octav. 17.
* Trop., of tones, lengthened: infinito magis illa flexa et circumducta sunt,Quint. 11, 3, 172.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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