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1 sinuo
sĭnŭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [id.].I.Lit., to bend, wind, curve; to bow, to swell out in curves (perh. not ante-Aug.; most freq. in the poets;* II.syn.: curvo, flecto): (anguis) sinuat immensa volumine terga,
Verg. A. 2, 208; cf.:flexos corpus in orbes (anguis),
Ov. M. 9, 64:(equus) sinuet alterna volumina crurum,
Verg. G. 3, 192:imposito patulos calamo sinuaverat arcus,
i. e. had bent, stretched, Ov. M. 8, 30; so,arcum,
id. ib. 8, 381: nervum, Sen. Herc. Fur. 1198:Euphraten immensum attolli et in modum diadematis sinuare orbes,
Tac. A. 6, 37:(anguis) immensos saltu sinuatur in arcus,
Ov. M. 3, 42; cf.:gurges curvos sinuatus in arcus,
id. ib. 14, 51:cornua Lunae sinuantur,
id. ib. 3, 682; 14, 501; Cels. 8, 1 med.: muri per artem obliqui aut introrsus sinuati, bent inwards, i. e. with retreating angles, Tac. H. 5, 11; cf.:exercitus in cornua, sinuatā mediā parte, curvatur,
Sen. Vit. Beat. 4:(Chaucorum gens) donec in Chattos usque sinuetur,
extends in a curve, Tac. G. 35:Ionia se ambagibus sinuat,
Mel. 1, 17:oceanum,
Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 271.—
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