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curvo , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. id.,
I.to crook, bend, bow, curve (not ante-Aug.; v. Orell. ad Cic. N. D. 1, 24, 66).
I. Lit.: “curvari manus et aduncos crescere in ungues,” Ov. M. 2, 479: “bimā cornua fronte (vitulus),” Verg. G. 4, 299: “trabes,” Ov. M. 7, 441; Prop. 3 (4), 22, 38. “flexile cornu,” Ov. M. 5, 383; 11, 324; cf.: “ingentem arcum manu,” Stat. Achill. 1, 487: “rotundas Curvat aper lances,” i. e. by its weight, Hor. S. 2, 4, 41: “Calabros sinus (Hadria),” id. C. 1, 33, 16: “portus curvatus in arcum,” Verg. A. 3, 533; cf. Plin. 6, 6, 6, § 18: “luna curvata in cornua,” id. 37, 10, 68, § 184; cf. poet.: “fronte curvatos imitatus ignes,” Hor. C. 4, 2, 57: “imi (rami) in terram adeo curvantur, ut, etc.,” Plin. 12, 5, 11, § 22: “in diversum curvatur (arbor),” id. 16, 42, 81, § 223: “insectorum pedes ... foris curvantur,” id. 11, 29, 35, § 101: “curvata in montis faciem unda,” Verg. G. 4, 361; cf. Ov. M. 15, 509; and: “tollimur in caelum curvato gurgite,” Verg. A. 3, 564.—Of persons: “nec nostrum seri curvarent Aeacon anni,” Ov. M. 9, 435; so, “curvata senio membra,” Tac. A. 1, 34: “pondera vix toto curvatus corpore juxta Deicit,” Stat. Th. 6, 649.—*
II. Trop., to make to yield, to move: “neque te munera nec ... vir curvat ( = movet, ad misericordiam flectit),” Hor. C. 3, 10, 16.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15.509
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 2.479
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 5.383
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 9.435
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 3.533
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 3.564
    • Vergil, Georgics, 4.299
    • Vergil, Georgics, 4.361
    • Horace, Satires, 2.4.41
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 7.441
    • Tacitus, Annales, 1.34
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 11.101
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 12.22
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 6.18
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 1.24
    • Statius, Thebias, 6
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