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ob-volvo , vi, ūtum, 3, v. a.,
I.to wrap round, muffle up, cover all over (class.; cf. obtego).
I. Lit.: “pictor ille vidit, obvolvendum caput Agamemnonis esse,” Cic. Or. 22, 74; “so freq.: capite obvoluto,” with his head muffled up, Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 77; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 28, § 72; Liv. 4, 12 fin.; cf. id. 23, 10; Suet. Calig. 58: caput obnubere ... quod est obvolvere, Paul. ex Fest. p. 170 Müll.: “os obvolutum est folliculo,” Cic. Inv. 2, 50, 149: “bracchium lanis fasciisque,” Suet. Dom. 17.—
B. Transf.: fax obvoluta sanguine, covered, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 31, 67 (Enn. v. 85 Vahl.).—*
II. Trop.: “verbisque decoris Obvolvas vitium,” cloak, disguise, Hor. S. 2, 7, 42: “obvolutus in peccatis,” Vulg. Ecclus. 12, 13.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.5.72
    • Plautus, Mostellaria, 2.1
    • Horace, Satires, 2.7.42
    • Suetonius, Caligula, 58
    • Suetonius, Domitianus, 17
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 4, 12
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 23, 10
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 1.31
    • Cicero, Orator, 22.74
    • Cicero, De Inventione, 2.50
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