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Lewis Short
flexĭo (noun F) : flecto
* A bending, swaying, turning; a bend, turn, curve (rare but class.).
* Lit.: trunco toto se ipse moderans et virili laterum flexione,Cic. Or. 18, 59; id. de Or. 3, 59, 220.
* Trop.
* In gen.: quae deverticula flexionesque quaesisti!i. e. turnings, windings,Cic. Pis. 22, 53.
* In partic., of the voice, a modulation, inflection, change: est in dicendo etiam quidam cantus obscurior ... quem significat Demosthenes et Aeschines, cum alter alteri obicit vocis flexiones,Cic. Or. 18, 57: delicatiores in cantu,id. de Or. 3, 25, 98: ut cervices oculosque pariter cum modorum flexionibus torquent,id. Leg. 2, 15, 39.
* A bending, swaying, turning; a bend, turn, curve (rare but class.).
* Lit.: trunco toto se ipse moderans et virili laterum flexione,Cic. Or. 18, 59; id. de Or. 3, 59, 220.
* Trop.
* In gen.: quae deverticula flexionesque quaesisti!i. e. turnings, windings,Cic. Pis. 22, 53.
* In partic., of the voice, a modulation, inflection, change: est in dicendo etiam quidam cantus obscurior ... quem significat Demosthenes et Aeschines, cum alter alteri obicit vocis flexiones,Cic. Or. 18, 57: delicatiores in cantu,id. de Or. 3, 25, 98: ut cervices oculosque pariter cum modorum flexionibus torquent,id. Leg. 2, 15, 39.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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