Deflecto, deflectis. deflexi deflexum, defléctere. Col. To bowe downe: to turne from: to turne our of the way: to digresse from a purpose. Ex itinere ad visendum aliquem deflectere. Suet. To turne out of the way to see one.Carinam deflectere aliquò. Lucr. To turne the ship toward.Deflexit cõsuetudo maiorum de spatio & curriculo. Ci. The custome and maner of our auncetours is somewhat changed or turned out of the wouted race.Deflexit de via consuetudo.Cicer.The custome is somewhat altered, and as it were turned astde out of the way.Deflectere se de curriculo peritionis, & animum ad accusandum transferxe. Ci. To leaue the race of labouring for offices or promotions, & turne him to the trade of accusing.Deflectere de cursu suarum actionum. Cæli. ad Ci. To leaue his wonted maner of doing things in the common weale.Interpretationem nominum deflectere. Sen. To wreast.Deflectemus in Thuscos. Plin. iu. We wil turne our iourney towarde: he Tuscanes.Aliquem ab ira in se deffectere.Stat.To come to himselfe againe after the pang of anger.Deflectere ex itinere.Plin. iun. Iter deflectere. Lucan. Lumina.Ouid.To looke aside. Oculos cuta. Val. Flac.Oratio redeat illuc vude deflexit. Cicero. Lette my talke returne thither from whence it digressed.In peius deflectere.Ouid.To ware worse and worse.Deflectere de recto.Cic.To swarue out of the right waye.Deflectere rem ad verba.Cicer.To wreast the matter to the wordes.Declinare proposito, & deflectere sententiam.Cic.Belli deflectere tumultus.Stat.To turne away the troubles of warte.A veritate deflectere.Cic. A vitrute patris. Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dē-flecto, xi, xum, 3, v. a. and n.I.Act., to bend downwards or aside, to turn aside or in another direction. A.Lit.: ramum olivae, Col. 5, 11, 14; cf.: palmitem, id. 4, 26, 3; Catull. 62, 51; Plin. 17, 23, 35, 204: tela (Venus), Verg. A. 10, 331: amnis in alium cursum, Cic. Div. 1, 19 fin.: cursum ad Romanos. Liv. 10, 27: vultum ab aliqua re ad aliquid, Val. Max. 5, 10, 1: carinam quolibet, Luc. 5, 789; cf.: rapidum iter, id. 3, 337; novam viam,
to turn off, construct in another direction
, Liv. 39, 27 fin.—B.Trop.1. In gen.: lumina, Ov. M. 7, 789; cf.: oculos a cura, Val. Fl. 8, 76: cum ipsos principes aliqua pravitas de via deflexit, Cic. Rep. 1, 44: aliquem ab institutis studiis, Quint. 10, 1, 91: ut declinet a proposito deflectatque sententiam, Cic. Or. 40: si ad verba rem deflectere velimus, id. Caecin. 18, 51: quaedam in senectute deflexit (for which, shortly before, mutavit), Cels. praef.: in ipsos factum deflectitur, Quint. 7, 2, 23: adversarios in suam utilitatem deflectere, id. 4, 1, 71; cf.: dotes puellae in pejus, Ov. R. Am. 325: tragoediam in obscenos risus, id. Tr. 2, 409: perniciosa consilia fortuna deflexit in melius, Sen. Ben. 6, 8, 1: virtutes in vitia, Suet. Dom. 3: se de curriculo petitionis,
to withdraw
, id. Mur. 22 fin.—2. Esp. (late Lat.), gramm. t. t., to inflect, to vary the form of a word: non solet sic deflecti, August. in Psa. 140, 25.— II.Neutr., to turn off, turn aside. A.Lit.: vulgus militum deflectere viā, Tac. H. 2, 70; cf. without via, Suet. Aug. 93 fin.: in Tuscos, Plin. Ep. 4, 1, 3.—B.Trop. (freq., but almost exclusively in Cicero): deflexit jam aliquantulum de spatio curriculoque consuetudo majorum, Cic. Lael. 12; so, de via (consuetudo), id. Off. 2, 3, 9: de recta regione, id. Verr. 2, 5, 68: a veritate, id. Rosc. Com. 16: oratio redeat illuc unde deflexit, id. Tusc. 5, 28, 80: a Domino, Vulg. Sirach 36, 28; 2, 7.