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sinuosus
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Lewis Short
(adjective) : sĭnŭōsus, a, um, 1. sinus
* Full of bendings, windings, or curves; full of folds, bent, winding, sinuous (poet. and in postAug. prose; syn. tortuosus).
* Lit.: flexus anguis,Verg. G. 1, 244: volumina (serpentis),id. A. 11, 753: Maeander flexibus,Plin. 5, 29, 31, § 113: arcus,Ov. Am. 1, 1, 23: vela,Prop. 4 (5), 1, 15.Ov. H. 8, 23: vestis,id. M. 5, 68: folia lateribus,Plin. 16, 6, 8, § 19 et saep.
* Trop.
* Of style, full of digressions, diffuse: ratio narrandi, * Quint. 2, 4, 3: quaestio,Gell. 14, 2, 13.
* Sinuoso in pectore, in the recesses of my heart, Pers. 5, 27.—* Adv.: sĭnŭōsē, intricately, in a roundabout manner: dicere sinuosius atque sollertius,Gell. 12, 5, 6.
* Full of bendings, windings, or curves; full of folds, bent, winding, sinuous (poet. and in postAug. prose; syn. tortuosus).
* Lit.: flexus anguis,Verg. G. 1, 244: volumina (serpentis),id. A. 11, 753: Maeander flexibus,Plin. 5, 29, 31, § 113: arcus,Ov. Am. 1, 1, 23: vela,Prop. 4 (5), 1, 15.Ov. H. 8, 23: vestis,id. M. 5, 68: folia lateribus,Plin. 16, 6, 8, § 19 et saep.
* Trop.
* Of style, full of digressions, diffuse: ratio narrandi, * Quint. 2, 4, 3: quaestio,Gell. 14, 2, 13.
* Sinuoso in pectore, in the recesses of my heart, Pers. 5, 27.—* Adv.: sĭnŭōsē, intricately, in a roundabout manner: dicere sinuosius atque sollertius,Gell. 12, 5, 6.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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