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rŏtundus (rŭt- ), a, um, adj. rota,
I.wheel-shaped, i. e. round, circular, spherical, rotund (very freq. and class.; cf. teres).
II. Trop., round, rounded.
B. In partic., of speech (opp. rough, unpolished), round, well turned, smooth, polished, elegant (in Cic. with quasi or ut ita dicam added; but v. infra, adv. b.): “erat verborum et delectus elegans et apta et quasi rotunda constructio,Cic. Brut. 78, 272; cf.: “Thucydides praefractior nec satis, ut ita dicam, rotundus,id. Or. 13, 40: “Graiis dedit ore rotundo Musa loqui,Hor. A. P. 323; “celeris ac rotunda distributio,Quint. 3, 4, 16: “rotunda volubilisque sententia,Gell. 11, 13, 4: “rotundi numeri (with brevis),id. 17, 20, 4: “verba,id. 16, 1, 1.—Hence, adv.: rŏtun- . *
a. (Acc. to I.) Roundly: “ut in orbem quam rotundissime formetur,Col. Arb. 5, 2.—*
b. (Acc. to II.) Roundly, smoothly, elegantly: “a te quidem apte ac rotunde,Cic. Fin. 4, 3, 7.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (18):
    • Horace, Satires, 2.7.86
    • Horace, Ars Poetica, 323
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.502
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 8.1
    • Cicero, De Republica, 6.15
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 2.12
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 4.3
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 1.10
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 5.24
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 3, 4.16
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 8, 5.27
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 11, 3.139
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 11.13.4
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 16.1.1
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 17.20.4
    • Cicero, Brutus, 78.272
    • Cicero, Orator, 13.40
    • Cicero, Timaeus, 6
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