volvantur
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;
pl. pres. pass. subj. 3rd
Examples
- T
Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...eadem subus haec iucunda videtur, insatiabiliter toti ut volvantur ibidem. Hoc etiam super est, ipsa quam dicere..." - L
APOCOLOCYNTOSIS
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
"...summi tanguntur culmina montis, irrita Sisyphio volvantur pondera collo. Apparuit subito C. Caesar et petere illum in servitutem..." - P
Aeneid IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...antiqua Tyros, flammaeque furentes culmina perque hominum volvantur perque deorum. audiit exanimis trepidoque exterrita cursu unguibus ora soror..." - P
Liber VI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...fatone res mortalium et necessitate immutabili an forte volvantur. quippe sapientissimos veterum quique sectam eorum aemulatur diversos reperies..."