flecterentur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →flecto, flectere, flexi, flexus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
bend, curve, bow; turn, curl; persuade, prevail on, soften;
pl. imperf. pass. subj. 3rd
Examples
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...articuli eius vertebraeque laxatae in omnem partem flecterentur. Hanc cum super mensam semel iterumque abiecisset, et catenatio mobilis..."Liber VI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Scauro scriptae, additis versibus qui in Tiberium flecterentur: verum ab Servilio et Cornelio accusatoribus adulterium Liviae, magorum sacra..."