The corpus record — Latin

advolo

advolo · v. n

to fly to

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Where it lives

Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
In Eutropium 3 · 4.18/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Argonautica 10 · 2.69/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k
Letters to and from Brutus 2 · 2.1/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 2 · 1.82/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 3 · 1.44/10k

Densest 12 of 48 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ad-vŏlo — Lewis & Short

ad-vŏlo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n.,

I to fly to or toward; constr. with ad, in, dat., or acc., Rudd. II. p. 136.

I Lit., of birds: avis advolans ad eas avīs, Cic. N. D. 2, 49: in agrum Volaterranum palumbium vise mari advolat, Plin. 10, 29, 41, § 78 al.: papilio luminibus lucernarum advolans, id. 28, 10, 45, § 162.—

II Metaph., of other things, to fly to, run to, come to (class.): vox mihi advolavit ad aurīs, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 69; so id. Rud. 2, 3, 3; id. Merc. 5, 2, 23: imago ad nos, * Lucr. 4, 316: ad urbem, Cic. Sest. 4 fin.: in Formianum, id. Att. 2, 13: Larino Romam, id. Clu. 6: ejus (Britanniae) ei)/dwlon mihi advolabit ad pectus, id. Fam. 15, 16: hostes ex omnibus partibus ad pabulatores, Caes. B. G. 5, 17: classem advolaturam esse, id. B. C. 2, 43: in auxilium, Suet. Galb. 20: fama advolat Aeneae, Verg. A. 10, 511; Manil. ap. Prisc. 760 P.—With acc.: rostra Cato advolat, Cic. Att. 1, 14 med.; Val. Fl. 4, 300.

In the wild

advolant Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.40
advolat Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 7.265
aduolet Tibullus, Elegiae 2.2.17
advola Cicero, Letters to Atticus 4.4.1
advolat Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.655
advolat Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.249

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