flector
Dictionary entries
- Entry →flecto, flectere, flexi, flexus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
bend, curve, bow; turn, curl; persuade, prevail on, soften;
sg. pres. pass. ind. 1st
Examples
- T
Truculentus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...servare suave est! vae misero mihi, post factum flector, qui antepartum perdidi. verum nunc si qua mi obtigerit..." - P
Metamorphoses VIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...potestas. nam modo, qui nunc sum, videor, modo flector in anguem, armenti modo dux vires in cornua sumo..."