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1 convolvo
con-volvo, volvi, vŏlūtum, 3, v. a., to roll together, roll up, roll round (first freq. in the post-Aug. per., esp. in Pliny the elder).I.Lit.:B.ignis semina convolvunt venti,
Lucr. 6, 200 sq.:se sol,
Cic. Div. 1, 23, 46:lubrica terga coluber,
Verg. A. 2, 474 (in acc. with Hom. Il. 22, 95: drakôn helissomenos):rapta turbines,
Sen. Ep. 94, 67:se venae arborum,
Plin. 16, 39, 76, § 198 al. —So in part. perf.:convoluti in semet dracones,
Plin. 10, 72, 92, § 197:aër ignavo globo torpet,
id. 2, 8, 6, § 33; 11, 37, 45, § 124 al.— Poet.:gentes mare,
i. e. involved by inundating, Luc. 4, 623.—Medial: pennis convolvitur Ales, Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 44, 113.—Esp.1.To fasten together, interweave, interlace:2.testudo convoluta omnibus rebus, quibus ignis jactus et lapides defendi possent,
Caes. B. C. 2, 2:spartum convolutum osseis iligneisve conamentis,
Plin. 19, 2, 7, § 27.—Of a written book or roll of manuscript, to unroll and roll up, as one reads; hence, to look over:II.magnam partem (historiae),
Sen. Contr. 5 (10), prooem. § 8.—Trop.: Gallograeciam quoque Syriatici belli ruina convolvit, involved, Flor. 2, 11, 1 (in Sen. Ep. 40, 2, the right read. is convellere).
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