proclino

prō-clīno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to bend or incline forwards, to bend, incline (not in Cic.).

I.

Lit.:

tum mare in haec magnus proclinet litora Nereus,

Ov. Am. 2, 11, 39; Vitr. 2, 8, 20:

curvatura montis proclinata ad mare,

id. 2, 10, 1:

proclinatum latus,

id. 5, 12, 3.—

II.

Trop., in part. pass., inclining or verging to a consummation, tottering to its fall:

adjuvat rem proclinatam Convictolitanis,

Caes. B. G. 7, 42, 2: proclinatā jam re, id. ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, B, § 1.