obliquely Copy link • obliquely: oblīquē: Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 20: Caes. Fig. = indirectly: Tac. A. 3, 35 (obl. castigare aliquem). Also, in obliquum, Virg. G. 1, 98: Plin.: and per obliquum, Hor. Od. 3, 27, 6: in somewhat diff. sense, ex obliquo (on one side), Plin. 2, 31, 31. See also askance.