flectentis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →flecto, flectere, flexi, flexus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
bend, curve, bow; turn, curl; persuade, prevail on, soften;
gen. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...temptare fugam nec longo frangere gyrocursum nec tarde flectenti cedere clauo; 555at Romana ratis stabilem praebere carinamcertior..."Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...nubem," sed sic quomodo aequinoctium in calorem frigusque flectentis anni, quomodo illa quae Chaldaei a canunt, quid stella..."Aeneid IX
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...propinquabant castris murosque subibant cum procul hos laevo flectentis limite cernunt, et galea Euryalum sublustri noctis in umbra..."Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...summum Cyprium vicum, ubi Dianium nuper fuit, flectenti carpentum dextra in Urbium clivum ut in collem Esquiliarum eueheretur..."