curvus: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>curvus</b>: (-vŏs), a, um, adj. [[root]] kar-, [[whence]] [[κορώνη]]>; cf.: [[circus]], [[varus]],<br /><b>I</b> [[crooked]], [[curved]], [[bent]] (opp. [[rectus]]; [[mostly]] [[poet]].).<br /><b>I</b> Prop.: [[aratrum]], Lucr. 5, 933; 6, 1253; Verg. G. 1, 170: rastri, Cat. 64, 39: [[culter]], Sen. Hippol. 53: falces, Verg. G. 1, 508: [[calamus]], Cat. 63, 22: [[arbor]], Ov. M. 5, 536: [[arcus]], id. ib. 9, 114: [[dens]], id. Am. 3, 10, 14: ungues, Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 4; Hor. Epod. 5, 93: [[lyra]], id. C. 1, 10, 6; 3, 28, 11: crinale, Ov. M. 5, 53: (equi) [[alvus]], Verg. A. 2, 51: carinae, id. G. 1, 360: cavernae, id. A. 3, 674: rates, Prop. 3 (4), 7, 29: litora, Cat. 64, 74; Verg. A. 3, 223; Hor. C. 4, 5, 14; id. Epod. 10, 21; Ov. M. 11, 352; cf. [[spatium]], Sall. H. 4, 20 Dietsch: [[flumen]], [[winding]], [[crooked]], Verg. G. 2, 12; Ov. M. 3, 342: aquae, id. F. 3, 520: [[aequor]], [[rising]] on [[high]], [[boisterous]], id. M. 11, 505 al.—Of persons: ita te adgerundā curvom aquā faciam, ut, etc., Plaut. Cas. 1, 1, 36: [[arator]], [[bent]], [[stooping]], Verg. E. 3, 42; and of one [[bent]] by [[age]]: [[anus]], Prop. 2 (3), 18, 20: membra, Ov. M. 3, 276: [[senecta]], id. A. A. 2, 670: [[caelator]], Juv. 9, 145: vel gibberosi vel curvi, Dig. 21, 1, 3.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop., [[crooked]], [[wrong]], [[perverse]]: [[mores]], Pers. 3, 52.—Subst.: curvum, i, n., [[that]] [[which]] is [[crooked]] or [[wrong]] (opp. rectum): [[scilicet]] ut possem [[curvo]] dignoscere rectum, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 44: rectum discernis, ubi [[inter]] Curva subit, Pers. 4, 12: invenimus qui curva corrigeret, [[set]] [[every]] [[thing]] [[right]], Plin. Ep. 5, 8 (21), 6: hic nobis curva corriget? Sen. Apoc. 8 fin.>