acclino

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ac-clīno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to lean on or against something (not before the Aug. period; mostly poet.).

I Lit.: se acclinavit in illum, Ov. M. 5, 72: latus leoni, Stat. S. 4, 2, 51.—Most freq. in part. pass. : acclinatus: colla acclinata, Ov. M. 10, 268; cf.: terrae acclinatus, id. ib. 14, 666: castra tumulo sunt acclinata, Liv. 44, 3, 6: maria terris, Stat. S. 5, 4, 5.—

II Trop., with se, to incline to a thing : ad causam senatus, Liv. 4, 48, 9.

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