convolvo

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).

I.

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: drakôn helissomenos):

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.—

B.

Esp.

1.

To fasten together, interweave, interlace:

testudo convoluta omnibus rebus, quibus ignis jactus et lapides defendi possent,

Caes. B. C. 2, 2:

spartum convolutum osseis iligneisve conamentis,

Plin. 19, 2, 7, § 27.—

2.

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.—

II.

Trop.: Gallograeciam quoque Syriatici belli ruina convolvit, involved, Flor. 2, 11, 1 (in Sen. Ep. 40, 2, the right read. is convellere).