volutus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →volvo, volvere, volvi, volutus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
roll, cause to roll; travel in circle/circuit; bring around/about; revolve;; envelop, wrap up; unroll (scroll); recite, reel off; turn over (in mind);; roll along/forward; (PASS) move sinuously (snake); grovel, roll on ground;
nom. sg. perf. pass. part.
Examples
- P
Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...respexit ad urbem. Ecce autem flammis inter tabulata volutus ad caelum undabat vertex turrimque tenebat, turrim compactis trabibus..." - P
Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...intercipit, optime Teuthra, te fugiens fratremque Tyren, curruque volutus caedit semianimis Rutulorum calcibus arva. ac velut optato ventis..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...lapide, qui cum de prona praeceps est valle volutus, per medium densi transit iter populi, dulce viatori lasso..."