(verb) : rĕ-flecto, xi, xum, 3, and n.
* Act., to bend or turn back or backwards; to turn about or away (class.).
* Lit.: caudam canum degeneres sub alvum reflectunt,Plin. 11, 50, 111, § 265; 11, 37, 78, § 199: caput leviter,Cat. 45, 10: pedem inde (sc. ex Labyrintho) sospes,id. 64, 112; cf.: gressum,to go back, return.Sen. Thyest. 428: cursum subito ad Contrebiam,Val. Max. 7, 4, 5 fin.: colla,Verg. A. 11, 622: oculos,Ov. M. 7, 341; cf.: visus,Val. Fl. 5, 455. — Part. perf.: (elephantorum) dentes reflexi,tusks.Plin. 11, 37, 62, § 165; so, cornu (with adunco aere),Sen. Oedip. 731: cornicula (scarabaei),Plin. 30, 11, 30, § 100: cervix. Verg. A. 10, 535; Ov. A. A. 3, 779: Stat. Achill. 1, 382. — Mid.: illam tereti cervice reflexam,bending herself back,Verg. A. 8, 633; cf.: telum reflexum,Sil. 16, 54; and poet.: (Ascalaphus) in caput crescit, longosque reflectitur ungues, he bends himself back into long claws, i. e. his nails are bent back and lengthened into claws, Ov. M. 5, 547.
* Neutr., to bend or turn back; trop., to give way, yield: ubi jam morbi reflexit causa,Lucr. 3, 502.

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