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
- L
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..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...Thetidis taedas voluit celebrare iugales. qui postquam niveis flexerunt sedibus artus large multiplici constructae sunt dape mensae..." - T
Liber V
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...cessaret. Nihil tamen tot onerati atque obruti malis flexerunt animos quin etsi omnia flammis ac ruinis aequata vidissent..."