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circumdo
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Lewis Short
(verb) : circum-do, dĕdi, dătum, dăre, , lit.
* To put, set, or place around, i. e. both to wrap around (e. g. a mantle). and also to enclose (e. g. a town with a wall; syn.: cingo, vestio, saepio, circumvallo al.), with a twofold construction (cf. Zumpt, Gr. § 418).
* Aliquid (alicui rei), to place something around something, to put, set around, etc. (class. in prose and poetry).
* With dat.: aër omnibus est rebus circumdatus appositusque,Lucr. 6, 1035: moenibus subjectos prope jam ignes circumdatosque restinximus,Cic. Cat. 3, 1, 2: circumdare fossam latam cubiculari lecto,id. Tusc. 5, 20, 59: satellites armatos contioni,Liv. 34, 27, 5: hinc patre hinc Catulo lateri circumdatis, Romam rediit,i. e. one on each side,id. 30, 19, 9; 3, 28, 2: milites sibi,Tac. A. 13, 25: arma umeris,Verg. A. 2, 510: licia tibi,id. E. 8, 74: vincula collo,Ov. M. 1, 631: bracchia collo,id. ib. 9, 459; 9, 605; 6, 479; and in tmesis: collo dare bracchia circum,Verg. A. 6, 700 (cf. the simplex: bracchia cervici dare,Hor. C. 3, 9, 3): lectis aulaea purpura,Curt. 9, 7, 15: cum maxime in hostiam itineri nostro circumdatam intuens,i. e. divided, and part placed on each side of the way,Liv. 40, 13, 4.
* Aliquem or aliquid (aliquā re), to surround some person or thing (with something), to encompass, enclose, encircle with.
* Trop. (most freq. in Tac.): cancelli, quos mihi ipse circumdedi,Cic. Quint. 10, 36: nescio an majora vincula majoresque necessitates vobis quam captivis vestris fortuna circumdederit,Liv. 21, 43, 3: egregiam famam paci circumdedit,i. e. conferred, imparted,Tac. Agr. 20; cf.: principatus inanem ei famam,id. H. 4, 11; id. Or. 37: principi ministeria,id. H. 2, 59; id. A. 14, 15.—In a Greek construction: infula virgineos circumdata comptus,encompassing,Lucr. 1, 88; Tac. H. 4, 45; id. A. 16, 25.
* Lit.
* In gen.: animum (deus) circumdedit corpore et vestivit extrinsecus,Cic. Univ. 6 fin.; cf.: aether corpore concreto circumdatus undique,Lucr. 5, 469: portum moenibus,Nep. Them. 6, 1: regio insulis circumdata,Cic. Fl. 12, 27: villam statione,Tac. A. 14, 8: suam domum spatio,id. G. 16: collis operibus,id. A. 6, 41: vallo castra,id. H. 4, 57: Othonem vexillis,id. ib. 1, 36: canibus saltus,Verg. E. 10, 57: circumdato me bracchiis: meum collum circumplecte,Plaut. As. 3, 3, 106: collum filo,Cat. 64, 377: (aurum) circumdatum argento,Cic. Div. 2, 65, 134: furvis circumdatus alis Somnus, * Tib. 2, 1, 89: ad talos stola demissa et circumdata palla,Hor. S. 1, 2, 99: circumdedit se zonā,Suet. Vit. 16: circumdata corpus amictu,Ov. M. 4, 313; cf. id. ib. 3, 666: tempora vittis,id. ib. 13, 643: Sidoniam picto chlamydem circumdata limbo,Verg. A. 4, 137.
* Trop.: omni autem totam figuram mundi levitate circumdedit,Cic. Univ. 6 init.: exiguis quibusdam finibus oratoris munus circumdedisti,have confined, circumscribed,id. de Or. 1, 62, 264; cf.: minus octoginta annis circumdatum aevum,Vell. 1, 17, 2: pueritiam robore,Tac. A. 12, 25: fraude,Sil. 7, 134; cf. id. 12, 477: monstrorum novitate,Quint. Decl. 18, 1.
* To put, set, or place around, i. e. both to wrap around (e. g. a mantle). and also to enclose (e. g. a town with a wall; syn.: cingo, vestio, saepio, circumvallo al.), with a twofold construction (cf. Zumpt, Gr. § 418).
* Aliquid (alicui rei), to place something around something, to put, set around, etc. (class. in prose and poetry).
* With dat.: aër omnibus est rebus circumdatus appositusque,Lucr. 6, 1035: moenibus subjectos prope jam ignes circumdatosque restinximus,Cic. Cat. 3, 1, 2: circumdare fossam latam cubiculari lecto,id. Tusc. 5, 20, 59: satellites armatos contioni,Liv. 34, 27, 5: hinc patre hinc Catulo lateri circumdatis, Romam rediit,i. e. one on each side,id. 30, 19, 9; 3, 28, 2: milites sibi,Tac. A. 13, 25: arma umeris,Verg. A. 2, 510: licia tibi,id. E. 8, 74: vincula collo,Ov. M. 1, 631: bracchia collo,id. ib. 9, 459; 9, 605; 6, 479; and in tmesis: collo dare bracchia circum,Verg. A. 6, 700 (cf. the simplex: bracchia cervici dare,Hor. C. 3, 9, 3): lectis aulaea purpura,Curt. 9, 7, 15: cum maxime in hostiam itineri nostro circumdatam intuens,i. e. divided, and part placed on each side of the way,Liv. 40, 13, 4.
* Aliquem or aliquid (aliquā re), to surround some person or thing (with something), to encompass, enclose, encircle with.
* Trop. (most freq. in Tac.): cancelli, quos mihi ipse circumdedi,Cic. Quint. 10, 36: nescio an majora vincula majoresque necessitates vobis quam captivis vestris fortuna circumdederit,Liv. 21, 43, 3: egregiam famam paci circumdedit,i. e. conferred, imparted,Tac. Agr. 20; cf.: principatus inanem ei famam,id. H. 4, 11; id. Or. 37: principi ministeria,id. H. 2, 59; id. A. 14, 15.—In a Greek construction: infula virgineos circumdata comptus,encompassing,Lucr. 1, 88; Tac. H. 4, 45; id. A. 16, 25.
* Lit.
* In gen.: animum (deus) circumdedit corpore et vestivit extrinsecus,Cic. Univ. 6 fin.; cf.: aether corpore concreto circumdatus undique,Lucr. 5, 469: portum moenibus,Nep. Them. 6, 1: regio insulis circumdata,Cic. Fl. 12, 27: villam statione,Tac. A. 14, 8: suam domum spatio,id. G. 16: collis operibus,id. A. 6, 41: vallo castra,id. H. 4, 57: Othonem vexillis,id. ib. 1, 36: canibus saltus,Verg. E. 10, 57: circumdato me bracchiis: meum collum circumplecte,Plaut. As. 3, 3, 106: collum filo,Cat. 64, 377: (aurum) circumdatum argento,Cic. Div. 2, 65, 134: furvis circumdatus alis Somnus, * Tib. 2, 1, 89: ad talos stola demissa et circumdata palla,Hor. S. 1, 2, 99: circumdedit se zonā,Suet. Vit. 16: circumdata corpus amictu,Ov. M. 4, 313; cf. id. ib. 3, 666: tempora vittis,id. ib. 13, 643: Sidoniam picto chlamydem circumdata limbo,Verg. A. 4, 137.
* Trop.: omni autem totam figuram mundi levitate circumdedit,Cic. Univ. 6 init.: exiguis quibusdam finibus oratoris munus circumdedisti,have confined, circumscribed,id. de Or. 1, 62, 264; cf.: minus octoginta annis circumdatum aevum,Vell. 1, 17, 2: pueritiam robore,Tac. A. 12, 25: fraude,Sil. 7, 134; cf. id. 12, 477: monstrorum novitate,Quint. Decl. 18, 1.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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