sinuosus

sĭnŭōsus, a, um, adj. [1. sinus], 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.