To howe or bende: to crooke: to turne. Vbi primum ex alto sinus ad vrbem ab litore inflectitur. Where the gulfe beginneth first to turne toward the city. Radices in nodum inflectere. Colum. To crooke or bende the rootes in maner of a knotte. In orbem inflectere. Col. To bend rounde. Capita inflectentes. Catul. Colla inflectere ad aliquid. Propert. To turne their neckes towarde. In eã cursus inflectitur. Pl. They turne their course toward. Oculos aliquorum inflectere. Cic. To make men looke tomarde him. Vestigium cursus sui inflectere. Ci. To turne his course a li tle an other way. Inflectere leuiter potius qum corrigere. Cic. To bend a little rather than to make perfectly straight. Lachrymis inflectere aliquem. Stat. With weeping to turne ones minde. Inflectere ius gratia. Cie. For fauour somewhat to wreste the lawe Inflexit orationÊ & eam mollem, teneramque reddidit. Cic. To chaunge the maner of stile. Senfus alicuius inflectere. Vir. Voces inflectere cantu. Tibul.

Bowed: dent: crooked: turned. vt inflexus remus. Cic. An ower bent or turned. Aratrum inflexum. Virg. The crooked plough. Incuruum & lemter summo inflexum bacillum. Cicero. A crooked staffe a little bent at the top. Ceruix inflexa. Vir. The neck bowed. Cornu inflexum. Ouid. A crumpe horne, or an horne crooked inward. Inflexa in se cornua. Plin. Hornes crooked inward as a rams horne. Genu inflexum. Propert. Inflexa puppis. Plin. Sonus inflexo spiritu variatus, cui opponitur continuus. Pli. A sowne or voice altered up and downe in tune. Inflexa iuxta tempora supercilia derisores significãt. Pli. The browes bending or turning toward the temyles signifieth scorners or mackers. Inflexa ad misera bilem sonum vox. Cic. A voice chaunged to a pisiful tune. Inflexus ictus. Plin. A side blowe.

I. Lit.: cum ferrum se inflexisset, Caes. B. G. 1, 25: bacillum, Cic. Div. 1, 17: capillum leniter, Suet. Aug. 79. —Mid.: sinus ad urbem inflectitur, bends itself, curves round, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 12, 30: montes inflexi theatrali modo, Plin. 4, 8, 15, 30: nullum cursus sui vestigium, to turn aside, Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49.—

B. In partic.

1. To change, alter, modulate, mitigate a tone: voces cantu, Tib. 1, 8, 37: vox inflexa, a plaintive tone, Cic. Or. 17 fin.; Mart. Cap. 3, 268 sqq.—

2. In gram., to mark or pronounce with a circumflex accent, Arn. 1, p. 44; cf.: agite, equi, facitote sonitus ungularum appareat: Cursu celeri facite inflexa sit pedum pernicitas, i.e. beat quick time with your feet, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 113.—

II. Trop., to change, affect, aller, pervert: solus hic inflexit sensus, Verg. A. 4, 22: jus civile gratiā, Cic. Caecin. 26, 73: orationem, manner or style of speaking, id. Brut. 9, 38: magnitudinem animi, to lessen, id. Fam. 1, 7.