(verb) : ad-jăcĕo, cŭi, no
* Sup., 2, , to lie at or near, to be contiguous to, to border upon (most freq. used of the geog. position of a place).—Constr. with dat., acc., ad, or absol. (in the histt. very freq.).
* With dat.: Tuscus ager Romano adjacet,Liv. 2, 49, 9; mari,id. 26, 42, 4; Plin. 6, 17, 21, § 56; Front. Strat. 3, 9, 5: cum Romani adjacerent vallo,Tac. A. 1, 65: munitionibus,id. ib. 4, 48: adjacet undis moles,Ov. M. 11, 729: quae adjacent torrenti Jeboc,Vulg. Deut. 2, 37.—Trop.: velle adjacet mihi,Vulg. Rom. 7, 18; 7, 21.
* With acc.: gentes, quae mare illud adjacent,Nep. Tim. 2, 1: Etruriam,Liv. 7, 12, 6 (v. Alschefski and Weissenb. ad h. l.).
* With ad: ad Syrtim,Mel. 1, 7, 2; so perh. also Caes. B. G. 6, 33, 2: quae (regio) ad Aduatucos adjacet (for the lect. vulg. Aduatucos or Aduatucis), and id. B. C. 2, 1; v. adigo fin.
* Absol.: adjacet (via) et mollior et magis trita,Quint. 1, 6, 22: adjacente Tiberi,Tac. H. 2, 93; so, adjacentes populi, i. q. propinqui,contiguous, neighboring,Tac. A. 13, 55.—And adjăcentĭa, ium, n., the adjoining country: lacum in adjacentia erupturum,Tac. A. 1, 79; 5, 14: projecto nitore adjacentia inlustrare,Plin. 37, 9, 52, § 137.