proclino

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σκῆπτρον χρυσείοις ἥλοισι πεπαρμένον → sceptre pierced with golden studs, staff studded with golden nails

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

prō-clīno: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,
I to bend or incline forwards, to bend, incline (not in Cic.).
I Lit.: tum mare in haec magnus proclinet litora Nereus, Ov. Am. 2, 11, 39; Vitr. 2, 8, 20: curvatura montis proclinata ad mare, id. 2, 10, 1: proclinatum latus, id. 5, 12, 3.—
II Trop., in part. pass., inclining or verging to a consummation, tottering to its fall: adjuvat rem proclinatam Convictolitanis, Caes. B. G. 7, 42, 2: proclinatā jam re, id. ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, B, § 1.