versabat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →verso, versare, versavi, versatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
keep turning/going round, spin, whirl; turn over and over; stir; maneuver;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber Primus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...petunt, ille Othryn et Haemum atque imum felix versabat vomere Olympum. sed non ulla quies animo fratrisque paventi..."
Liber Secundus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...modo deliciae, dulces modo pectore curae.non te barbaricae versabat turbo catastae,nec mixtus Phariis venalis mercibus infanscompositosque sales..."Aeneid IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...pugnent ipsique nepotesque.' Haec ait, et partis animum versabat in omnis, invisam quaerens quam primum abrumpere lucem..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...digitis, tum prono in pollice torquens libratum tereti versabat turbine fusum, atque ita decerpens aequabat semper opus dens..."Metamorphoses VI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...vellera mollibat nebulas aequantia tractu, sive levi teretem versabat pollice fusum, seu pingebat acu; scires a Pallade doctam..."Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...murmure labens ibat et attritas versabat rivus harenas. ut loca laudavit, summas pede contigit undas; his quoque laudatis..."Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Patrum interim animos certamen regni ac cupido versabat; necdum ad singulos, quia nemo magnopere eminebat in novo populo..."