Reflecto, reflectis, reflexi, reflexum, refléctere. Plin. To bowe backe: to turne backe or againe: to reuoke: to let or pluck back from doing.Aciem reflectere. Sen. To turne his eyes and looke backe.Caput leuiter reflectens. Ca. Turning his head a litle backe.Colla molli reflectunt. Vir. They turne backe their pliant neckes.Oculos reflectere.Ouid.To caste backe his eies.Pedem reflexit inde. Catull. He turned backe from thence.Visus reflectere.Val. Flac. Reflectere, per translationÊ.To turne, let, or plucke backe from doing a thing.Animum incitatum reuocare & reflectere. Cice. To reuoke and plucke backe a minde, eagrely and vehemently bente to do a thing.Reprimere arque reflectere. Ter. To staye and plucke backe.Incitare & reflectere, contratia.Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rĕ-flecto, xi, xum, 3, v. a. and n.I.Act., to bend or turn back or backwards; to turn about or away (class.). A.Lit.: caudam canum degeneres sub alvum reflectunt, Plin. 11, 50, 111, 265; 11, 37, 78, 199: caput leviter, Cat. 45, 10: pedem inde (sc. ex Labyrintho) sospes, id. 64, 112; cf.: gressum,
to go back
,
return
. Sen. Thyest. 428: cursum subito ad Contrebiam, Val. Max. 7, 4, 5 fin.: colla, Verg. A. 11, 622: oculos, Ov. M. 7, 341; cf.: visus, Val. Fl. 5, 455. — Part. perf.: (elephantorum) dentes reflexi,
tusks
. Plin. 11, 37, 62, 165; so, cornu (with adunco aere), Sen. Oedip. 731: cornicula (scarabaei), Plin. 30, 11, 30, 100: cervix. Verg. A. 10, 535; Ov. A. A. 3, 779: Stat. Achill. 1, 382. — Mid.: illam tereti cervice reflexam,
bending herself back
, Verg. A. 8, 633; cf.: telum reflexum, Sil. 16, 54; and poet.: (Ascalaphus) in caput crescit, longosque reflectitur ungues, he bends himself back into long claws, i. e. his nails are bent back and lengthened into claws, Ov. M. 5, 547. — B.Trop., to turn back, bring back: quem neque fides, neque jusjurandum ... Repressit neque reflexit, Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 9; cf.: nonnumquam animum incitatum ad ulciscendam orationem tuam revoco ipse et reflecto, Cic. Sull. 16, 46: quibus (causis) mentes aut incitantur aut reflectuntur, id. de Or. 1, 12, 53: aliquem, Sen. Agam. 155: animum reflexi, i. e.
I reflected within myself
, Verg. A. 2, 741; cf.: mentem ad Romanam urbem, Mamert. Grat. Act. 14: in melius tua, qui potes, orsa reflectas!
change
,
alter
, Verg. A. 10, 632; to reverse a proposition or inference: reflexim inferre, App. Dogm. Plat. 3, p. 36, 5; cf. Mart. Cap. 4, 411. — II.Neutr., to bend or turn back; trop., to give way, yield: ubi jam morbi reflexit causa, Lucr. 3, 502.
