modulate Copy link • modulate: Phr.: to m. the voice, vocem flectere, Quint. 4, 2, 39: cf. id. 11, 3, 41, sonum pronuntiando flectere. (N.B.--Not modulor in this sense: cf. Quint. 9, 4, 31, which passage shows that it denotes the musical arrangement of words, not a manner of speaking them).