versant
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;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...suspensam vestem chartasque volantis verberibus venti versant planguntque per auras. fit quoque enim inter..."
Liber Sextus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...tela suosque inter equos saevam misero luctamine versant congeriem et longis campos singultibus implent. victores patrium contra paeana..."Liber IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...acies insignibus alis ingentes animos angusto in pectore versant, usque adeo obnixi non cedere, dum gravis..."Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...stare valebant, adspiceres, flentes alios terraque iacentes lassaque versantes supremo lumina motu; membraque pendentis tendunt ad sidera caeli..."Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...festa Minerva aut ducunt lanas aut stamina pollice versant aut haerent telae famulasque laboribus urguent. e quibus..."Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...locum curae sunt atque labori quantum carminibus quae versant atque venenis humanos animos: has nullo perdere possum..."