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dē-flecto, xi, xum, 3, v. a. and n.

  1. I. Act., to bend downwards or aside, to turn aside or in another direction.
    1. A. Lit.: ramum olivae, Col. 5, 11, 14; cf.: palmitem, id. 4, 26, 3; Catull. 62, 51; Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 204: tela (Venus), Verg. A. 10, 331: amnis in alium cursum, Cic. Div. 1, 19 fin.: cursum ad Romanos. Liv. 10, 27: vultum ab aliqua re ad aliquid, Val. Max. 5, 10, 1: carinam quolibet, Luc. 5, 789; cf.: rapidum iter, id. 3, 337; novam viam, to turn off, construct in another direction, Liv. 39, 27 fin.
    2. B. Trop.
      1. 1. In gen.: lumina, Ov. M. 7, 789; cf.: oculos a cura, Val. Fl. 8, 76: cum ipsos principes aliqua pravitas de via deflexit, Cic. Rep. 1, 44: aliquem ab institutis studiis, Quint. 10, 1, 91: ut declinet a proposito deflectatque sententiam, Cic. Or. 40: si ad verba rem deflectere velimus, id. Caecin. 18, 51: quaedam in senectute deflexit (for which, shortly before, mutavit), Cels. praef.: in ipsos factum deflectitur, Quint. 7, 2, 23: adversarios in suam utilitatem deflectere, id. 4, 1, 71; cf.: dotes puellae in pejus, Ov. R. Am. 325: tragoediam in obscenos risus, id. Tr. 2, 409: perniciosa consilia fortuna deflexit in melius, Sen. Ben. 6, 8, 1: virtutes in vitia, Suet. Dom. 3: se de curriculo petitionis, to withdraw, id. Mur. 22 fin.
      2. 2. Esp. (late Lat.), gramm. t. t., to inflect, to vary the form of a word: non solet sic deflecti, August. in Psa. 140, 25.
  2. II. Neutr., to turn off, turn aside.
    1. A. Lit.: vulgus militum deflectere viā, Tac. H. 2, 70; cf. without via, Suet. Aug. 93 fin.: in Tuscos, Plin. Ep. 4, 1, 3.
    2. B. Trop. (freq., but almost exclusively in Cicero): deflexit jam aliquantulum de spatio curriculoque consuetudo majorum, Cic. Lael. 12; so, de via (consuetudo), id. Off. 2, 3, 9: de recta regione, id. Verr. 2, 5, 68: a veritate, id. Rosc. Com. 16: oratio redeat illuc unde deflexit, id. Tusc. 5, 28, 80: a Domino, Vulg. Sirach 36, 28; 2, 7.

dē-flĕo, ēvi, ētum, 2, v. a. and n.

  1. I. Act.
    1. A. To weep over a person or thing; to lament, deplore, bewail (for syn. cf.: deploro, ejulo, ploro, lacrimo, lamentor, fleo —class.): te cinefactum deflevimus, Lucr. 3, 907: Numam, Ov. M. 15, 487: nuptam (Eurydicen), id. ib. 10, 12: inter nos impendentes casus deflevimus, Cic. Brut. 96, 329: illud initium civilis belli, Asinius Pollio ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 31: eversionem civitatis, Quint. 3, 8, 12: aliena mala, id. 6, 1, 26 et saep.: Crassi mors a multis saepe defleta, Cic. de Or. 3, 3; cf. id. Phil. 13, 5; Verg. A. 6, 220 al.: in deflenda nece, Quint. 11, 3, 8 et saep.
      Absol.: dum assident, dum deflent, Tac. A. 16, 13: in amici sinu, Plin. Ep. 8, 16, 5.
          1. (β) Poet. with acc. and inf.: et minui deflevit onus dorsumque levari, Manil. 4, 748.
    2. * B. Oculos, to dull with weeping, App. M. 5, p. 161, 36.
  2. II. Neutr., to weep much or violently, weep to exhaustion (very rare): gravibus cogor deflere querelis, Prop. 1, 16, 13; Justin. 18, 4, 13; App. M. 4 fin.

dēflētĭo, ōnis, f. [defleo, no. II.], a violent weeping (late Lat.), Juvenc. 4, 122.

dēflexĭe, ōnis, f. [deflecto], a turning or bending aside (late Lat.).

  1. I. Lit.: certa meatus solis, Macr. Sat. 1, 17.
  2. II. Trop.: cupiditatum, Naz. Pan. Const. 5.

1. dēflexus, a, um, Part., from deflecto.

2. dēflexus, ūs, m. [deflecto], a bending, turning aside (post-class.), in the trop. sense: humani animi ab odio ad gratiam deflexus, Val. Max. 4, 2; cf. id. 7, 3: a virtute, Ambros. in Psa. 1, § 23.