if it means "flew through my winds"

see: Sicut corvi ***volant*** illi qui non revertuntur ad arcam per sanctitatis affectum, quia nihil cogitant nisi de se ipsis, quomodo scilicet possint aliquam veritatem indagare, ut philosophi; sed illi *****volant***** ut columbae qui et contemplantur et revertuntur ad proximos contemplata docentes qui ramum virentis olivae ...
"Sancti Thomae de Aquino
In psalmos Davidis expositio"

trans:

Those fly like ravens who do not turn back to the ark by the affection of holiness, for they do not think of anything but themselves, namely how they might track down some truth, like the philosophers; but those fly like doves who both contemplate and turn back towards their neighbors, teaching what they have contemplated, those who with the green olive branch


volavi is the first person singular of the simple past of "volo" [volo, volas volavi, volatum, volare]


hth






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Note added at 16 hrs 19 mins (2004-07-23 20:12:31 GMT)
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p.s.: one online ref.: volavit -- verb; 3rd person singular perfect of <volo,volas volavi, volatum, volare> fly -- flew

(please note that the Latin paradigm is made of the: first and second person singular of the present tense, the first person singular of the past [what is generally called \"perfect\", the Latin supine and the infinite])


see:http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/eieol/latol-7-R.html

vale

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Note added at 16 hrs 31 mins (2004-07-23 20:24:03 GMT)
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pp.ss.: please note that \"volavi\" translates, as a general rule, both the simple past and the present perfect

verbis

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Note added at 16 hrs 34 mins (2004-07-23 20:27:09 GMT)
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to make you smile:

http://www.jardmail.co.uk/misc/latinphrase.shtml

\"Nupperinme de Gallia huc volavi! Mehercule, bracchia mea defatiga sunt!
I just flew in from Gaul, and boy, are my arms tired!\"


good nightttttttttttttttttttttt