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
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..."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..."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..."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..."