I.a bending, swaying, turning; a bend, turn, curve (rare but class.).
I. Lit.: “trunco toto se ipse moderans et virili laterum flexione,” Cic. Or. 18, 59; id. de Or. 3, 59, 220.—
II. Trop.
A. In gen.: “quae deverticula flexionesque quaesisti!” i. e. turnings, windings, Cic. Pis. 22, 53.—
B. In partic., of the voice, a modulation, inflection, change: “est in dicendo etiam quidam cantus obscurior ... quem significat Demosthenes et Aeschines, cum alter alteri obicit vocis flexiones,” Cic. Or. 18, 57: “delicatiores in cantu,” id. de Or. 3, 25, 98: “ut cervices oculosque pariter cum modorum flexionibus torquent,” id. Leg. 2, 15, 39.
