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|lshtext=<b>rŏtundus</b>: (rŭt-), a, um, adj. [[rota]],<br /><b>I</b> [[wheel]]-shaped, i. e. [[round]], [[circular]], [[spherical]], [[rotund]] ([[very]] freq. and [[class]].; cf. [[teres]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: [[cur]] ea, quae fuerint juxtim quadrata, [[procul]] sint Visa rotunda, Lucr. 4, 502; cf. Cic. Fin. 2, 12, 36: stellae globosae et rotundae, id. Rep. 6, 15, 15: [[mundum]] rotundum esse volunt, id. N. D. 1, 10, 24.— Comp.: [[mundum]] ita tornavit, ut [[nihil]] effici possit rotundius, Cic. Univ. 6; so, bacae, Hor. Epod. 8, 13; cf.: capita rotundiora ... rotundissima, Cels. 8, 1 fin.: [[locus]] [[infimus]] in [[rotundo]], Cic. Tusc. 5, 24, 69: togae, [[hanging]] [[evenly]] all [[round]], Quint. 11, 3, 139.— Prov.: diruit, aedificat, mutat quadrata rotundis, i. e. turns [[every]] [[thing]] upside [[down]], Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 100.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop., [[round]], [[rounded]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen.: [[sapiens]] Fortis et in se [[ipse]] [[totus]], [[teres]] [[atque]] [[rotundus]], Hor. S. 2, 7, 86: [[illa]] rotunda et [[undique]] circumcisa, Quint. 8, 5, 27.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic., of [[speech]] (opp. [[rough]], [[unpolished]]), [[round]], [[well]] turned, [[smooth]], [[polished]], [[elegant]] (in Cic. [[with]] [[quasi]] or ut ita dicam added; [[but]]<br /> v. [[infra]], adv. b.): erat verborum et [[delectus]] [[elegans]] et apta et [[quasi]] rotunda [[constructio]], Cic. Brut. 78, 272; cf.: [[Thucydides]] praefractior nec [[satis]], ut ita dicam, [[rotundus]], id. Or. 13, 40: Graiis dedit [[ore]] [[rotundo]] [[Musa]] loqui, Hor. A. P. 323; celeris ac rotunda [[distributio]], Quint. 3, 4, 16: rotunda volubilisque [[sententia]], Gell. 11, 13, 4: rotundi numeri ([[with]] [[brevis]]), id. 17, 20, 4: verba, id. 16, 1, 1.—Hence, adv.: rŏtun-dē. *<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> (Acc. to I.) Roundly: ut in orbem [[quam]] rotundissime formetur, Col. Arb. 5, 2.—*<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> (Acc. to II.) Roundly, [[smoothly]], [[elegantly]]: a te [[quidem]] [[apte]] ac [[rotunde]], Cic. Fin. 4, 3, 7.