avolat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →avolo, avolare, avolavi, avolatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
fly/rush away/off; hasten away, flee, vanish; fly away (missile);
sg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Aeneid XI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...puraque interrita parma. at iuvenis vicisse dolo ratus avolat ipse (haud mora), conversisque fugax aufertur habenis quadripedemque citum..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...Locridis ales equos, isque per aetherias me tollens avolat umbras et Veneris casto collocat in gremio. ipsa suum..."Liber Secundus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...permanere? effluit igitur voluptas corporis et prima quaeque avolat saepiusque relinquit causam paenitendi quam recordandi. itaque beatior Africanus..."Liber III
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...esse. Haec ubi inter signa peditum dicta dedit, avolat deinde ad equites. 'Agite, iuvenes' inquit, 'praestate virtute peditem..."