τίς γὰρ ἁδονᾶς ἄτερ θνατῶν βίος ποθεινὸς ἢ ποία τυραννίς; τᾶς ἄτερ οὐδὲ θεῶν ζηλωτὸς αἰών → What human life is desirable without pleasure, or what lordly power? Without it not even the life of the gods is enviable.
con-flexus: a, um, Part. flecto,
I bowed, bent, Plin. 2, 44, 44, § 115.
cōnflexus, a, um (inus. conflecto ), recourbé : Plin. 2, 115.