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flexio

flexio · f

a bending

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Where it lives

Orator 2 · 1.08/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

flexĭo — Lewis & Short

flexĭo, ōnis, f.flecto,

I a bending, swaying, turning; a bend, turn, curve (rare but class.).

I Lit.: trunco toto se ipse moderans et virili laterum flexione, Cic. Or. 18, 59; id. de Or. 3, 59, 220.—

II Trop.

A In gen.: quae deverticula flexionesque quaesisti! i. e. turnings, windings, Cic. Pis. 22, 53.—

B In partic., of the voice, a modulation, inflection, change: est in dicendo etiam quidam cantus obscurior ... quem significat Demosthenes et Aeschines, cum alter alteri obicit vocis flexiones, Cic. Or. 18, 57: delicatiores in cantu, id. de Or. 3, 25, 98: ut cervices oculosque pariter cum modorum flexionibus torquent, id. Leg. 2, 15, 39.

In the wild

flexionesque Cicero, In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 53
flexiones Cicero, De Oratore 3.98
flexione Cicero, Orator 59
flexione Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.3.122
flexionis Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.3
flexionesque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.51.p2

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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