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|lshtext=<b>dē-clīno</b>: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. CLINO = [[κλίνω]]>, orig.<br /><b>I</b> to [[bend]] from the [[straight]] [[path]]; to [[turn]] [[aside]] or [[away]] (freq. and [[class]].).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> Act.: ego [[modo]] declinavi paullum me [[extra]] viam, Plaut. Aul. 4, 8, 11; cf.: [[sese]] rectā regione viai, Lucr. 2, 250; and: se a terris omnia numina, Poët. ap. Suet. Aug. 70: lumina, Catull. 64, 91: [[agmen]], Liv. 1, 28; 36, 23: [[nares]] in alteram partem, Cels. 8, 5.—Poet. of the eyes, to [[bend]] [[down]], i. e. to [[lower]], [[close]] [[them]] in [[sleep]]: nec dulci declinat lumina somno, * Verg. A. 4, 185.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Neutr.: [[paulum]] ad dexteram de via declinavi, ut ad Pericli [[sepulcrum]] accederem, Cic. Fin. 5, 2, 5; id. Att. 14, 17, 2; Liv. 38, 20, 8.—So of the [[oblique]] [[motion]] of atoms (corresp. [[with]] [[oblique]] ferri): si omnes atomi declinabunt, nullae [[umquam]] cohaerescent; [[sive]] aliae declinabunt, aliae suo nutu recte ferentur, etc., Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 19 sq.; cf. id. Fat. 9, 18 (preceded by [[cur]] [[Epicurus]] atomos de via deducat): quae nova [[causa]] in [[natura]] est, [[qua]] declinet [[atomus]]? 20, 46 (the [[reading]] quae declinet atomum is [[wrong]]), id. N. D. 1, 25.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> Act., to [[turn]] [[aside]]: [[neque]] (mulierem) declinatam [[quicquam]] ab aliarum ingenio ullam reperias, [[who]] has departed, deviated, * Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 3; cf.: quaedam verborum flgurae [[paulum]] figuris sententiarum declinantur, Quint. 9, 3, 88; id. 10, 3, 33: [[neque]] spe, [[neque]] metu [[declinatus]] [[animus]], id. 12, 1, 16: [[Cato]] literas Graecas aetate jam declinata didicit, in the [[decline]] of [[life]], id. 12, 11, 23. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Neutr., to [[turn]] [[aside]], [[deviate]], [[turn]] [[away]]: de via, Cic. Lael. 17; cf.: de statu suo, id. Clu. 38, 106: a religione officii, id. Verr. 2, 3, 1: a malis (opp. appetere bona), id. Tusc. 4, 6, 13: a parvis delictis diligentius, id. Off. 1, 40 fin.: [[aliquantulum]] a proposito, id. Or. 40, 138: a [[recto]] itinere ([[oratio]]), Quint. 4, 3, 14 al.: [[gemma]] [[paulum]] declinans a topazio in [[aurum]], [[passing]], Plin. 37, 8, 34, § 113: ut eo revocetur [[unde]] huc declinavit [[oratio]], digressed, Cic. de Or. 2, 38; cf. id. Leg. 1, 21 fin.: [[quantum]] in Italiam declinaverat belli, Liv. 28, 1: in asperam Pholoen, Hor. Od. 1, 33, 7: in pejus, Quint. 10, 2, 16: ad discendum jus, Quint. 12, 3, 9; cf. id. 7, 2, 30.—Absol.: declinasse me [[paululum]] et praesentes [[fluctus]] fugisse, Cic. Sest. 34: [[paulatim]] [[amor]], decreases, Ov. M. 9, 460: [[dies]] coeperat declinare, Vulg. Luc. 9, 12. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic. grammat. t. t., to [[vary]], inflect a [[part]] of [[speech]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In the [[older]] grammarians, of [[every]] [[kind]] of [[inflection]] (declension, conjugation, [[comparison]], [[derivation]], etc.), Varr. L. L. 8, § 2 sq.; 10, § 11 sq.; cf. also Quint. 1, 4, 22; 1, 5, 63 al. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In the [[later]] grammarians, to [[decline]], in the [[strict]] [[sense]], [[Charis]], p. 8 sq. et al. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> Transf., [[with]] an [[object]] denoting [[that]] from [[which]] one turns [[aside]]; to [[avoid]], to [[shun]] (classical, [[most]] freq. in Cic.); nec [[satis]] recte ([[oratio]]) declinat impetum, [[nisi]] [[etiam]] in cedendo [[quid]] deceat intellegit, Cic. Or. 68, 228; cf., corresp. [[with]] vitare, id. Att. 8, 11, D. fin.; and: ictum, Liv. 42, 63, 4: urbem, Cic. Planc. 41: laqueos judicii, id. Mil. 15, 40: appetuntur quae [[secundum]] naturam sunt, declinantur contraria, id. N. D. 3, 13, 33: vitia, id. Off. 1, 6, 19: ea quae nocitura videantur, id. ib. 1, 4; cf. Tac. A. 13, 4: invidiam, id. H. 4, 41 fin.; Suet. Caes. 4: impudicitiam uxoris, Tac. A. 6, 51: oppida ut busta, Amm. 16, 2, 12.