I.to roll or tumble about (syn. voluto).
I. Lit.: “aliquem in luto,” Ter. And. 4, 4, 38.—Mid., to roll one's self, to roll: “in suo pervoluta sanguine,” weltering, App. M. 8, p. 207, 22.—
B. Transf., to turn over a book, to read: “Smyrnam incana diu saecula pervoluent,” Cat. 95, 6.—
II. Trop., to be very busy or much engaged in any thing: “ut in iis locis pervolvatur animus,” Cic. de Or. 2, 35, 149.