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
Truculentus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...servare suave est! vae misero mihi, post factum flector, qui antepartum perdidi. verum nunc si qua mi obtigerit..."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..."