I.crooked, curved, bent (opp. rectus; mostly poet.).
I. Prop.: “aratrum,” Lucr. 5, 933; 6, 1253; Verg. G. 1, 170: “rastri,” Cat. 64, 39: “culter,” Sen. Hippol. 53: “falces,” Verg. G. 1, 508: “calamus,” Cat. 63, 22: “arbor,” Ov. M. 5, 536: “arcus,” id. ib. 9, 114: “dens,” id. Am. 3, 10, 14: “ungues,” Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 4; Hor. Epod. 5, 93: “lyra,” id. C. 1, 10, 6; 3, 28, 11: “crinale,” Ov. M. 5, 53: “(equi) alvus,” Verg. A. 2, 51: “carinae,” id. G. 1, 360: “cavernae,” id. A. 3, 674: “rates,” Prop. 3 (4), 7, 29. “litora,” Cat. 64, 74; Verg. A. 3, 223; Hor. C. 4, 5, 14; id. Epod. 10, 21; Ov. M. 11, 352; cf. “spatium,” Sall. H. 4, 20 Dietsch: “flumen,” winding, crooked, Verg. G. 2, 12; Ov. M. 3, 342: “aquae,” id. F. 3, 520: “aequor,” rising on high, boisterous, id. M. 11, 505 al.—Of persons: “ita te adgerundā curvom aquā faciam, ut, etc.,” Plaut. Cas. 1, 1, 36: “arator,” bent, stooping, Verg. E. 3, 42; and of one bent by age: “anus,” Prop. 2 (3), 18, 20. “membra,” Ov. M. 3, 276: “senecta,” id. A. A. 2, 670: “caelator,” Juv. 9, 145: “vel gibberosi vel curvi,” Dig. 21, 1, 3.—
II. Trop., crooked, wrong, perverse: “mores,” Pers. 3, 52.—Subst.: curvum , i, n., that which is crooked or wrong (opp. rectum): “scilicet ut possem curvo dignoscere rectum,” Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 44: “rectum discernis, ubi inter Curva subit,” Pers. 4, 12: “invenimus qui curva corrigeret,” set every thing right, Plin. Ep. 5, 8 (21), 6: “hic nobis curva corriget?” Sen. Apoc. 8 fin.
