sŭper-vŏlo

I. to fly over (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): totum supervolat orbem, Ov. M. 4, 624: supervolantes alte alites, Plin. 8, 14, 14, § 36; Mel. 1, 19; Val. Max. 4, 8, 5: tremebunda supervolat hasta, Verg. A. 10, 522.