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repandus

repandus · adj

bent backwards

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Where it lives

de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

rĕ-pandus — Lewis & Short

rĕ-pandus, a, um, adj.,

I bent backwards, turned up (syn.: recurvus, reduncus): lascivire pecus . . . rostrique repandum, with turned-up snouts (dolphins, seacalves), Lucil. ap. Non. 159, 1 (cf. repandirostrus): dorsum (delphini), Plin. 9, 8, 7, § 23; cf.: repandus (delphinus), Ov. M. 3, 680: cervix, Plin. 14, 22, 28, § 140: crura Socratis, Hier. adv. Jov. 1, 48: calceoli, Cic. N. D. 1, 29, 82: cornu, Sol. 43: lilium, Vulg. 3 Reg. 7, 26.

In the wild

repandae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 14.22.p1
repandis Cicero, de Natura Deorum 1.82
repandus Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.680
repandum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.8.p1

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