revolvere

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January 15, 2010 at 1:41 pm of course, etymologically, ‘radical’ comes from radix and ‘revolutionary’ from revolvere so the whole modern-postmodern-premodern thing has been going on for a while.

Terribly Boring 6: My favourite PhD Alix Mortimer 2010
'utere luce tua longamque' ait, 'indue famam, dum tibi me iunctum mors inrevocata veretur. vincimur: immites scis nulla revolvere Parcas stamina; vade, diu populis promissa voluptas

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
[Footnote: Positis radicibus sapientiae Latinorum penes Linguas et Mathematicam et Perspectivam, nunc volo revolvere radices a parte Scientiae Experimentalis, quia sine experientia nihil sufficienter scire protest.

The Emancipation of Massachusetts Brooks Adams 1887