Vertîgo, p pr. vertíginis. f. g. Pli. 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.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
vertīgo, ĭnis, f. [verto], a turning or whirling round (perh. not ante-Aug.). 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 whirlingof 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.
