turn round

turn round:

A. Trans.:

1. verso, 1 (to move round in a circle, or to move about): v. TURN (A., III.), TURN ABOUT.

2. circumăgo, ēgi, actum. 3 (to t. through an angle or in a circle): to t. round a horse with reins, c. equum frenis, Liv. 1, 14, fin.: v. TURN (A., III.). Fig.: he t.'d round to his side almost all the world, universum prope humanum genus c. in se, Plin. 26, 3, 7. Join: c. et flecto, Suet. Caes. 70.

3. converto, 3: v. TURN (A., III).

4. intorqueo, torsi, tortum, 2: to t. round the eyes, I. oculos, Virg. Georg. 4, 451.

5. contorqueo, 2: to t. round a globe, c. globum, Cic. N. D. 1, 10, 24.

B. Intrans.: converto (with refl. pron.), verso (with refl. pron.), versor, circumăgor, circumvertor (of things): v. TURN (B., II.), REVOLVE. A t.ing round: circumactus: Plin.: Sen.