ŏvīle, is, n. [ovis].
I A sheepfold (syn. caula).
A Lit.: non lupus insidias explorat ovilia circum, Verg. G. 3, 537; id. A. 9, 59; Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 79.—
2 A fold for goats : aliis in ovilibus haedi, Ov. M. 13, 828.—
B Fig., the church or fold of Christ , Vulg. Johan. 10, 1, 16.—
II Ovile, an enclosed space in the Campus Martius, where the Romans voted at their comitia , Liv. 26, 22; Juv. 6, 528.— Plur. , Luc. 2, 197; cf. Serv. Verg. E. 1, 34.