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circum-vŏlo , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (not ante-Aug.).
I. Prop., to fly around: “turba (Harpyiae) praedam circumvolat,” Verg. A. 3, 233: “seu (me) mors atris circumvolat alis,” Hor. S. 2, 1, 58; so Verg. A. 2, 360: “caput,” id. ib. 6, 866; Ov. M. 2, 719; 14, 507: “sedem,” Quint. 2, 6, 7: aliquem, * Suet. Aug. 97.—Pass.: “nave circumvolatā ab halcyone,” Plin. 10, 32, 47, § 90.—
II. In gen., to run or hasten around: “ordines exercitus,” Vell. 2, 27, 2: “jaculo campum,” Sil. 17, 416.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 2.719
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 2.360
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 3.233
    • Horace, Satires, 2.1.58
    • Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 97
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 10.90
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 2, 6.7
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