curvator
Dictionary entries
- Entry →curvo, curvare, curvavi, curvatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
bend/arch, make curved/bent; form a curve; make stoop/bow/yield; influence;
sg. fut. pass. imp. 2ndsg. fut. pass. imp. 3rd
Examples
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Liber XVI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...respondeant. Lege Ciceronem: compositio eius una est, pedem curvat lenta et sine infamia mollis. At contra Pollionis Asinii..." - P
Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...iterque non agit in rectum, sed in orbem curvat eundem: ut volucris visis rapidissima miluus extis, dum timet..." - Q
Sermones II
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...conviva reponet. Umber et iligna nutritus glande rotundas curvat aper lances carnem vitantis inertem; nam Laurens malus..."