mōto

I. to keep moving, move about (poet.): Zephyris motantibus, Verg. E. 5, 5; cacumina quercūs, id. ib. 6, 28: lacertos, Ov. M. 11, 674.—Pass.: fundamenta parietesque quati et motari videntur, Jul. Val. Rer. Gest. Alex. 1, 10.