The corpus record — Latin

ad-volvo

ad-volvo · v. a

to roll to

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Where it lives

Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 2.45/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Annales 5 · 0.56/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 3 · 0.4/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ad-volvo — Lewis & Short

ad-volvo, vi, vŏlūtum, 3, v. a.,

I to roll to or toward.

I In gen.: robora focis, Verg. G. 3, 377; so id. A. 6, 182: advolvi (for advolvere se) ad ignem, Plin. 11, 37, 70, § 185: advolvit saxum magnum ad ostium, Vulg. Matt. 27, 60; Marc. 15, 46.—

II Esp., of suppliants, to throw one's self at the feet of any one, to fall at. fall prostrate before: genibus ejus advolutus est, Vell. 2, 80: omnium genibus se advolvens, Liv. 8, 37 fin.: advolvi genibus, id. 28, 34: tuis advolvimur aris, Prop. 4, 16, 1.—With acc.: genua patrum advolvuntur, Sall. Fragm. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 311: cum Tiberii genua advolveretur, Tac. A. 1, 13; cf. id. ib. 6, 49; 15, 71.—Trop.: magnusque advolvitur astris clamor, rolls, i. e. rises or ascends, Stat. Th. 5, 143.

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