volvuntur
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. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...prorsus inpulsas, sed imitus commotas, quae tantisper erutae volvuntur, dum illius infusi desuper spiritus vis manet. Austri vero..."Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...publice stabile est; tam hominum quam urbium fata volvuntur. Inter placidissima terror existit nihilque extra tumultuantibus causis mala..."Liber VIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...Consilia enim rebus aptantur; res nostrae feruntur, immo volvuntur; ergo consilium nasci sub diem debet. Et hoc quoque..."Aeneid XI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...alto armaque corporaque et permixti caede virorum semianimes volvuntur equi, pugna aspera surgit. Orsilochus Remuli, quando ipsum horrebat..."Aeneid VII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...secans infaustum interluit Allia nomen: quam multi Libyco volvuntur marmore fluctus saevus ubi Orion hibernis conditur undis..."Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...genus antiquum Terrae, Titania pubes, fulmine deiecti fundo volvuntur in imo. hic et Aloidas geminos immania vidi corpora..."Aeneid IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...magno persentit pectore curas; mens immota manet, lacrimae volvuntur inanes. Tum vero infelix fatis exterrita Dido mortem orat..."Metamorphoses XIV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...redeunt ac fontibus ora relaxant et defrenato volvuntur in aequora cursu. Ipse tridente suo terram percussit, at illa..."