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
- A
Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...prorsus inpulsas, sed imitus commotas, quae tantisper erutae volvuntur, dum illius infusi desuper spiritus vis manet. Austri vero..." - L
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..." - L
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..."