volvens
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;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...facilius verba ore libero exprimeret, calculos lingua volvens dicere domi solebat. LV. Est interim et longus et plenus..."
Liber Septimus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...questibus aestus. ergo iterum sensus varios super hospite volvens maeret et absenti nequiquam talia fatur: 'si tibi Thessalicis..."Liber Quintus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...fluens anfractibus Iris saevaque Thermodon medio sale murmura volvens, Gradivo sacer et spoliis ditissimus amnis, donat equos, donat..."Liber Secundus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...Pliada lege poli nimboso moverat astro Iuppiter aeternum volvens opus et simul undis cuncta ruunt unoque dei Pangaea..."
Liber Quartus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...litoribus, fractas ubi Vesvius erigit iras aemula Trinacriis volvens incendia flammis. mira fides! credetne virum ventura propago..."Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...tende odiis.' stetit acer in armis Aeneas volvens oculos dextramque repressit; et iam iamque magis cunctantem flectere sermo..."Aeneid VII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Latinus obtutu tenet ora soloque immobilis haeret, intentos volvens oculos. nec purpura regem picta movet nec sceptra movent..."Liber VII
Aulus Gellius
"...sempiterna quaedam et indeclinabilis series rerum et catena volvens semetipsa sese et inplicans per aeternos consequentiae ordines..."