A whirling or turning round. Moli vertigine membra rotare, Claud. Rerum vertigine attonitus. Luc. Astonied with the chaunge of things. Vertigo cæli. Plin. The rounde course of celesriasl vodies. Torta vertigo, Vide TORQVEO. Vertigo. Plin A diseale cansing a giddinesse of the heade, with a dimnesss of the slght, so that one is readie to fall downe withall. quum am vertigine rectum Ambulat. & geminis exsurgit mensa locernis. Inuen. When that through dronkennesse the honse seemeth to go rounde, and two candles to be on the table, where is but one.

I. Lit.: assidua caeli, Ov. M. 2, 70: ponti, id. ib. 11, 548: venti, Sen. Q. N. 5, 13, 3: torti fili, Luc. 6, 460: rotarum, Prud. Psych. 414: assiduā vertigine rotare aliquem, Plin. 8, 40, 61, 150: quibus una Quiritem Vertigo facit, a turn, twirl of a slave in manumission, Pers. 5, 76.—

B. Transf., a whirling of the head, giddiness, dizziness, vertigo, Liv. 44, 6, 8; Plin. 20, 15, 57, 161; 20, 17, 73, 194; 25, 9, 70, 117; 25, 11, 89, 139 al.; Macr. S. 7, 9.—Of persons intoxicated, Juv. 6, 304.—

II. Trop., a revolution, change, alteration: vertigine rerum Attoniti, Luc. 8, 16.