volvunt
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. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...viam circum versantur et ignes passim per caeli volvunt summania templa, sive aliunde fluens alicunde extrinsecus aër versat..."Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...verba magna celeritate praecipitant et communes locos volvunt et in privato circulantur, sed eos qui vita docent..."
Liber Quartus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...cava lintea cursu multaque deserto memores super Hercule volvunt. Thracius at summa sociis e puppe sacerdos fata deum..."
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...pilas, ubi languidus ignis inerrat aedibus et tenuem volvunt hypocausta vaporem? nec si Baianis veniat novus hospes..."Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...quae forma viros fortunave mersit. saxum ingens volvunt alii, radiisque rotarum districti pendent; sedet aeternumque sedebit infelix Theseus..."Aeneid III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...hiememque ferens, et inhorruit unda tenebris. continuo venti volvunt mare magnaque surgunt aequora, dispersi iactamur gurgite vasto; involvere..."Aeneid I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Eurusque Notusque ruunt creberque procellis Africus, et vastos volvunt ad litora fluctus. Insequitur clamorque virum stridorque rudentum. Eripiunt..."