Roto, rotas, rotare. Col. To turne a thing round like a wheele: to swing aboute.More fundæ rotare aliquem. Ou. To swing one as he wold do a sling.Aper rotat canes. Oui. The bore swingeth the dogges in hys mouth.Caput ense rotare. Luca. Venti rotant flammas cauis fornacibus. Lucret. Telum immane rotat. Sta. He swingeth his exceeding great weapons.Rotans. Participium. Hor.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rŏto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [rota]. I.Act., to turn a thing round like a wheel; to swing round, whirl about (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf. torqueo). A.Lit.: Learchum bis terque per auras More rotat fundae, Ov. M. 4, 517; cf. id. ib. 9, 217; id. A. A. 2, 374: jactare caput et comas excutientem rotare, fanaticum est, Quint. 11, 3, 71: sanguineos orbes (i. e. oculos),
to roll about
, Val. Fl. 4, 235: ensem fulmineum, to brandish (in order to add force to the blow), Verg. A. 9, 441: telum, Liv. 42, 65, 10: telum in ora loquentis, Stat. Th. 9, 802: clipeum, Val Fl. 6, 551: saxa, Sen. Q. N. 3, 27, 6: flammam (venti), Lucr. 6, 202; cf.: (venti) trudunt res ante rapidique rotanti turbine portant,
in a whirling tornado
, id. 1, 295: flammae fumum, Hor. C. 4, 11, 11: se in vulnus (ursa), Luc. 6, 222: conreptum rotatumque sternit, Plin. 8, 16, 19, 51.— Mid., to turn or go round in a circle, to roll round, revolve: Tyrrheni greges circumque infraque rotantur, Stat. Achill. 1, 56: circum caput igne rotato, Ov. M. 12, 296: poterisne rotatis Obvius ire polis?id. ib. 2, 74; cf.: nivibus rotatis (with glomerari), id. ib. 9, 221: sphaerico motu in orbem rotari, Macr Somn. Scip. 2, 14, 31.— B.Trop.: aut curtum sermone rotato Torqueat enthymema,
round
,
compact
,
concise
, Juv. 6, 449: sic ordinem fati rerum aeterna series rotat, Sen. Q. N. 2, 35, 2.— II.Neutr., = rotari, to turn or roll round, to revolve (very rare): parte ex aliā, quā saxa rotantia late Impulerat torrens, Verg. A. 10, 362 Serv. (cf.: volventia plaustra, id. G. 1, 163); so of a peacock spreading its tail out like a wheel, Col. 8, 11, 8.
