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|lshtext=<b>dēclīnātĭo</b>: ōnis, f. id.,<br /><b>I</b> a bending from a [[thing]], a bending [[aside]]; an [[oblique]] [[inclination]] or [[direction]] ([[good]] [[prose]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: lanceam exigua corporis declinatione vitare, Curt. 9, 7 fin.; cf.: [[quot]] ego tuas petitiones parva quadam declinatione effugi, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 15: declinare dixit ([[Epicurus]]) atomum perpaulum, et ipsa [[declinatio]] ad libidinem fingitur, etc., id. Fin. 1, 6, 19; so of the [[oblique]] [[motion]] of atoms, id. Fat. 10, 22; 22, 47.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Like the Gr. [[κλίμα]]>, the supposed [[slope]] of the [[earth]] [[towards]] the poles, a [[region]] of the [[earth]] or [[sky]], a [[climate]]: [[declinatio]] mundi, Col. 1 prooem. § 22; so, mundi, id. 3, 1, 3; cf.: [[positio]] caeli et [[declinatio]], id. 1, 6, 18; so [[correspond]]. [[with]] [[regio]] caeli, Col. 4, 24, 2; cf. also caeli, the [[altitude]] of the [[pole]], Vitr. 9, 7, 1.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen., a [[turning]] [[away]] from [[any]] [[thing]]; an avoiding, avoidance: ut bona [[natura]] appetimus, sic a malis [[natura]] declinamus; quae [[declinatio]], si cum ratione fiet, [[cautio]] appelletur, Cic. Tusc. 4, 6, 13; cf. so opp. [[appetitio]], id. N. D. 3, 13, 33; and in plur. Gell. 14, 1, 23: laboris, periculi, Cic. Clu. 53 fin.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> t. t.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of [[rhetor]]. lang., a [[short]] [[digression]]: [[declinatio]] [[brevis]] a proposito, non ut [[superior]] [[illa]] [[digressio]], Cic. de Or. 3, 53 fin.; id. Part. 15; cf. Quint. 9, 1, 32 and 34.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of gramm. lang.: [[variation]], [[inflection]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In the [[older]] grammarians, [[every]] [[change]] of form [[which]] a [[word]] undergoes; as declension, [[strictly]] so called, conjugation, [[comparison]], [[derivation]], etc., Varr. L. L. 8, § 2 sq.; 10, § 11 sq.; Cic. de Or. 3, 54; cf. also of declension in its stricter [[sense]], Quint. 1, 4, 29; 1, 5, 63; of conjugation, id. 1, 4, 13; of [[derivation]], id. 8, 3, 32; 2, 15, 4.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Among the [[later]] grammarians, of declension, [[properly]] so called, as [[distinguished]] from conjugatio, [[comparatio]], [[derivatio]], etc. So, [[Donatus]]: in declinatione compositivorum nominum, p. 174 P. (p. 13 Lind.).