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Dictionary- Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
- Cooper: Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Brittanicae
- Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
- per-plexus, a, um, adj. [plecto], entangled, involved, intricate, confused (not in Cic. or Cæs.). I. Lit.:
figurae
, Lucr. 2, 102; cf. id. 2, 459; 463: foramina linguae
, id. 4, 621: corpora terraï
, id. 5, 452: iter silvae
, Verg. A. 9, 391; Plin. 9, 2, 1, 2: nervi
, Vulg. Job, 40, 12.—II. Trop., intricate, involved, confused, perplexed, unintelligible, dark, ambiguous, obscure, inscrutable: sermones
, Liv. 40, 5: perplexius carmen
, id. 25, 12: perplexum Punico astu responsum
, id. 35, 14 fin.—As subst., intricacy, perplexity: ignorare se dixit, quidnam perplexi sua legatio haberet
, id. 34, 57.—Comp.: ratio perplexior
, Plin. 2, 15, 13, 62.—Hence, adv.: perplexē, confusedly, perplexedly, obscurely: pergin', scelesta, mecum perplexe loqui?
Ter. Eun. 5, 1, 1: defectionem haud perplexe indicavere
, Liv. 6, 13; Curt. 8, 5, 13.—Comp.: perplexius errare
, Prud. adv. Symm. 2, 847: disputans
, Amm. 25, 3, 23.—B. Carefully, with minute care: interrogando
, Amm. 15, 1, 1.
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