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flexibilis

flexibilis · adj

that may be bent

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Where it lives

Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 1 · 1.07/10k
Letters to and from Brutus 1 · 1.05/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 1 · 0.95/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
de Natura Deorum 2 · 0.56/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

flexĭbĭlis — Lewis & Short

flexĭbĭlis, e, adj.flexus, from flecto,

I that may be bent, pliant, flexible (class.; cf.: lentus, flexilis).

I Lit.: materiam rerum totam esse flexibilem et commutabilem, Cic. N. D. 3, 39, 92: arcus, Ov. Am. 3, 3, 29: (ulmus) ad currus flexibili vite, Plin. 16, 43, 83, § 228.—

II Trop.

A Pliant, flexible, tractable: genera vocis permulta: grave, acutum; flexibile, durum, flexible, Cic. N. D. 2, 58, 146; cf. oratio, id. Or. 16, 52: nihil tam flexibile, id. Brut. 79, 274: vox, Quint. 11, 3, 15; 40: nihil non flexibile ad bonitatem, Cic. Att. 10, 11, 1.—*

B In a bad sense, fickle, wavering, inconstant: quid potest esse tam flexibile, tam devium, quam animus ejus, qui, etc., Cic. Lael. 25, 92.

In the wild

flexibile Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.146
flexibilis Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.3.15
flexibilis Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 128.4
flexibilis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.5.25
flexibiles Ovid, Amores 3.3.29
flexibile Cicero, Brutus 274

6 of 21 attestations shown.

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