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
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..."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..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...Giton; inhibete crudelissimas manus; Giton est, domina, succurre". Deflectit aures Tryphaena iam sua sponte credentes raptimque ad puerum..."