I.full of bendings, windings, or curves; full of folds, bent, winding, sinuous (poet. and in postAug. prose; syn. tortuosus).
I. Lit.: “flexus anguis,” Verg. G. 1, 244: “volumina (serpentis),” id. A. 11, 753: “Maeander flexibus,” Plin. 5, 29, 31, § 113: “arcus,” Ov. Am. 1, 1, 23: “vela,” Prop. 4 (5), 1, 15. Ov. H. 8, 23: “vestis,” id. M. 5, 68: “folia lateribus,” Plin. 16, 6, 8, § 19 et saep.—
II. Trop.
A. Of style, full of digressions, diffuse: ratio narrandi, * Quint. 2, 4, 3: “quaestio,” Gell. 14, 2, 13.—
B. Sinuoso in pectore, in the recesses of my heart, Pers. 5, 27.—* Adv.: sĭnŭōsē , intricately, in a roundabout manner: “dicere sinuosius atque sollertius,” Gell. 12, 5, 6.
