volves
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;
sg. fut. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...perturbare te desine ac subinde hoc in animo volve, maiorem partem mortalium, cum illi nec sit quicquam mali..."Aeneid VIII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...undas scuta virum galeasque et fortia corpora volves, Thybri pater! poscant acies et foedera rumpant.' Haec ubi dicta..."
