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-flecto , xi, xum, 3, v. a. and n.
I. Act., to bend downwards or aside, to turn aside or in another direction.
A. Lit.: “ramum olivae,Col. 5, 11, 14; cf.: “palmitem,id. 4, 26, 3; Catull. 62, 51; Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 204: “tela (Venus),Verg. A. 10, 331: “amnis in alium cursum,Cic. Div. 1, 19 fin.: cursum ad Romanos. Liv. 10, 27: “vultum ab aliqua re ad aliquid,Val. Max. 5, 10, 1: “carinam quolibet,Luc. 5, 789; cf.: “rapidum iter,id. 3, 337; “novam viam,to turn off, construct in another direction, Liv. 39, 27 fin.
B. Trop.
2. Esp. (late Lat.), gramm. t. t., to inflect, to vary the form of a word: “non solet sic deflecti,August. in Psa. 140, 25.—
II. Neutr., to turn off, turn aside.
B. Trop. (freq., but almost exclusively in Cicero): “deflexit jam aliquantulum de spatio curriculoque consuetudo majorum,Cic. Lael. 12; so, “de via (consuetudo),id. Off. 2, 3, 9: “de recta regione,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 68: “a veritate,id. Rosc. Com. 16: “oratio redeat illuc unde deflexit,id. Tusc. 5, 28, 80: “a Domino,Vulg. Sirach 36, 28; 2, 7.
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