1. flexus — Lewis & Short
flexus, a, um, P. a., from flecto.
Part. andThe corpus record — Latin
flexus
flexus · P. a
Part. and P. a., from flecto
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Where it lives
- Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
- Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
- Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
- Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
- Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
- Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
- Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 32 1 · 0.94/10k
- Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
- Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
- Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
- Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
- Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. flexus — Lewis & Short
flexus, ūs, m.flecto,
I a bending, turning, winding (class.; in sing. and plur.).
I Lit.:
aures duros et quasi corneolos habent introitus, multisque cum flexibus,Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 144; cf. Quint. 6, 13, 9:
ut qui cursu parum valent, flexu eludunt,id. 9, 2, 78:
cum venissem ad pontem, in quo flexus est ad iter Arpinas,Cic. Att. 16, 13, a, 1; cf.:
in aliquo flexu viae,Liv. 22, 12, 7:
implicatae flexibus vallium viae,id. 32, 4, 4:
Rhenus modico flexu in occidentem versus,Tac. G. 1:
flexu Armeniam petivit,id. A. 12, 12:
alio flexu reduci ad viam,Quint. 2, 17, 29:
(quo pacto sol) Brumales adeat flexus,Lucr. 5, 616:
brumales,id. 5, 640:
metae,the turn round the goal, Pers. 3, 63:
labyrinthei,the mazes, Cat. 64, 114:
capilli dociles et centum flexibus apti,Ov. Am. 1, 14, 13: in litore flexus Mecybernaeus, the bay or gulf, Mela, 2, 3 init.; cf. id. 3, 1.—
II Trop.
A In gen., a turning, transition into another state, political change:
id enim est caput civilis prudentiae, videre itinera flexusque rerum publicarum,Cic. Rep. 2, 25, 46:
in hoc flexu quasi aetatis fama adolescentis paululum haesit ad metas (the figure taken from the turning of the racers on reaching the goal),id. Cael. 31, 75; cf.:
si infinitus forensium rerum labor decursu honorum et jam aetatis flexu constitisset, i. e. senectus,id. de Or. 1, 1, 1:
flexu auctumni (= post medium tempus auctumni, trop. from turning the meta in the Circus),Tac. H. 5, 23; v. Orell. ad h. 1.—
B In partic. (post-Aug.).
1 An artful turning, winding, shifting:
inde recta fere est actio, hinc mille flexus et artes desiderantur,Quint. 5, 13, 2:
qui haec recta tantum, et in nullos flexus recedentia tractaverit,id. 10, 5, 12. —
2 Of the voice, inflection, modulation, variation:
citharoedi simul et sono vocis et plurimis flexibus serviunt,Quint. 1, 12, 3:
quid quoque flexu dicendum,id. 1, 8, 1:
qui flexus deceat miserationem,id. 1, 11, 12; 1, 8, 3.—
3 In gram., inflection, variation, derivation (in Varro flexura, v. h. v.): quid vero? quae tota positionis ejusdem in diversos flexus eunt? cum Alba faciat Albanos et Albenses;
volo, volui et volavi,Quint. 1, 6, 15.
In the wild
- flexibus Silius Italicus, Punica 3.192
- flexibus Silius Italicus, Punica 2.450
- flexibus Catullus, Carmina long_poems.64.114
- flexibus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 24.1.4
- flexibus Seneca, Troades 1
- flexibus Silius Italicus, Punica 4.317
6 of 29 attestations shown.
Where it came from
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