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(verb) : trans-formo, āvi, ātum, 1
* To change in shape, transform (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn. verto).
* Lit.: (Proteus) Omnia transformat sese in miracula rerum,Verg. G. 4, 441: in vultus sese aniles (Alecto),id. A. 7, 416: membra in juvencos,Ov. M. 10, 237: cuncta In segetem,id. ib. 13, 654: gemmas novem in ignes (i. e. stellas),id. F. 3, 515: (Scylla) in scopulum Transformata,id. M. 14, 74; Vulg. 2 Cor. 3, 18.
* Trop.: hunc (animum) transformari quodammodo ad naturam eorum, de quibus loquimur, necesse est,Quint. 1, 2, 30.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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