con-volvo, volvi, vŏlūtum, 3
* V. a., to roll together, roll up, roll round (first freq. in the post-Aug. per., esp. in Pliny the elder).
* Lit.: ignis semina convolvunt venti,Lucr. 6, 200 sq.: se sol,Cic. Div. 1, 23, 46: lubrica terga coluber,Verg. A. 2, 474 (in acc. with Hom. Il. 22, 95: δράκων ἑλισσόμενος): rapta turbines,Sen. Ep. 94, 67: se venae arborum,Plin. 16, 39, 76, § 198 al.—So in part. perf.: convoluti in semet dracones,Plin. 10, 72, 92, § 197: aër ignavo globo torpet,id. 2, 8, 6, § 33; 11, 37, 45, § 124 al.—Poet.: gentes mare,i. e. involved by inundating,Luc. 4, 623.—Medial: pennis convolvitur Ales, Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 44, 113.
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* Trop.: Gallograeciam quoque Syriatici belli ruina convolvit, involved, Flor. 2, 11, 1 (in Sen. Ep. 40, 2, the right read. is convellere).
* Of a written book or roll of manuscript, to unroll and roll up, as one reads; hence, to look over: magnam partem (historiae),Sen. Contr. 5 (10), prooem. § 8.

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