flexerunt
Dictionary entries
- Entry →flecto, flectere, flexi, flexus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
bend, curve, bow; turn, curl; persuade, prevail on, soften;
pl. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
ad Helviam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...numerum plurium adduxit; non gemmae te, non margaritae flexerunt; non tibi diuitiae uelut maximum generis humani bonum refulserunt..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...Thetidis taedas voluit celebrare iugales. qui postquam niveis flexerunt sedibus artus large multiplici constructae sunt dape mensae..."Liber V
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...cessaret. Nihil tamen tot onerati atque obruti malis flexerunt animos quin etsi omnia flammis ac ruinis aequata vidissent..."