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curvus (-vŏs ), a, um, adj. root kar-, whence κορώνη; cf.: circus, varus,
I.crooked, curved, bent (opp. rectus; mostly poet.).
I. Prop.: “aratrum,Lucr. 5, 933; 6, 1253; Verg. G. 1, 170: “rastri,Cat. 64, 39: “culter,Sen. Hippol. 53: “falces,Verg. G. 1, 508: “calamus,Cat. 63, 22: “arbor,Ov. M. 5, 536: “arcus,id. ib. 9, 114: “dens,id. Am. 3, 10, 14: “ungues,Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 4; Hor. Epod. 5, 93: “lyra,id. C. 1, 10, 6; 3, 28, 11: “crinale,Ov. M. 5, 53: “(equi) alvus,Verg. A. 2, 51: “carinae,id. G. 1, 360: “cavernae,id. A. 3, 674: “rates,Prop. 3 (4), 7, 29.litora,Cat. 64, 74; Verg. A. 3, 223; Hor. C. 4, 5, 14; id. Epod. 10, 21; Ov. M. 11, 352; cf. “spatium,Sall. H. 4, 20 Dietsch: “flumen,winding, crooked, Verg. G. 2, 12; Ov. M. 3, 342: “aquae,id. F. 3, 520: “aequor,rising on high, boisterous, id. M. 11, 505 al.—Of persons: “ita te adgerundā curvom aquā faciam, ut, etc.,Plaut. Cas. 1, 1, 36: “arator,bent, stooping, Verg. E. 3, 42; and of one bent by age: “anus,Prop. 2 (3), 18, 20.membra,Ov. M. 3, 276: “senecta,id. A. A. 2, 670: “caelator,Juv. 9, 145: “vel gibberosi vel curvi,Dig. 21, 1, 3.—
II. Trop., crooked, wrong, perverse: “mores,Pers. 3, 52.—Subst.: curvum , i, n., that which is crooked or wrong (opp. rectum): “scilicet ut possem curvo dignoscere rectum,Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 44: “rectum discernis, ubi inter Curva subit,Pers. 4, 12: “invenimus qui curva corrigeret,set every thing right, Plin. Ep. 5, 8 (21), 6: “hic nobis curva corriget?Sen. Apoc. 8 fin.
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 11.352
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.342
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 11.505
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.276
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 5.53
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 5.536
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 9.114
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 3.674
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 2.51
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 3.223
    • Vergil, Georgics, 1.170
    • Vergil, Georgics, 2.12
    • Vergil, Georgics, 1.360
    • Vergil, Georgics, 1.508
    • Plautus, Casina, 1.1
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.933
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.1253
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 5.8
    • Seneca, Phaedra, 53
    • Seneca, Apocolocyntosis, 8
    • Persius, Saturae, 3
    • Persius, Saturae, 4
    • Ovid, Fasti, 3
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