I.to make flexible, to bend (poet. and in postclass. prose).
I. Lit.: “arcus lentare et fundere glandes,” i. e. to draw a bow, Stat. Achill. 1, 436; so, “arcus,” id. Th. 1, 703: “Gortynia cornua,” id. ib. 3, 587.—
B. Transf., to bend, i. e. ply the oar: “Trinacriā lentandus remus in undā,” Verg. A. 3, 384: “remos,” Sen. Agm. 437.—
II. Trop.