deflectite
Dictionary entries
- Entry →deflecto, deflectere, deflexi, deflexus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
bend downwards; bend (bow); turn (aside), change course/direction of; deflect;; divert, distract; turn one's eyes; modify/twist (words/ideas); round (point);; bend/turn aside/off; deviate/change one's course; digress (speech); alter pitch;
pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
- L
Liber XIX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...revocat ac profert, modo fingit ~et ignota ac~ deflectit, modo, id quod nuper increbruit, pro cultu habetur audax..." - L
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...Thaliam. Horum nominum interpretationem, prout cuique uisum est, deflectit et ad rationem aliquam conatur perducere, cum Hesiodus puellis..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...Giton; inhibete crudelissimas manus; Giton est, domina, succurre". Deflectit aures Tryphaena iam sua sponte credentes raptimque ad puerum..."