LAT
circumflecto
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Lewis Short
(verb) : circum-flecto, xi, xum, 3
* To bend or turn about (Verg. and post-class. writers); prop. of the charioteer in the circus; hence, transf.' longos cursus,Verg. A. 5, 131; 3, 430.
* Trop.: circumflexa saecula,returning upon themselves,Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 391: anceps labyrinthus et error circumflexus,full of windings and turnings,Prud. Apoth. 71.
* In later gram. t. t., to mark with a circumflex, to pronounce as long (in Quint., instead of it, circumducere, q. v.): penultimam,Gell. 4, 7, 2: syllaba circumflexa,id. 4, 7, 2, § 4; Diom. p. 425 P.; Prisc. p. 1287 ib. et saep.—Adv.: circum-flexē, with a circumflex: promere ( = pronuntiare) syllabam,Gell. 4, 7, 4: enuntiare syllabam, Porphyr. ad Hor. C. 4, 9, 1; id. ad Hor. S. 1, 1, 1.
* To bend or turn about (Verg. and post-class. writers); prop. of the charioteer in the circus; hence, transf.' longos cursus,Verg. A. 5, 131; 3, 430.
* Trop.: circumflexa saecula,returning upon themselves,Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 391: anceps labyrinthus et error circumflexus,full of windings and turnings,Prud. Apoth. 71.
* In later gram. t. t., to mark with a circumflex, to pronounce as long (in Quint., instead of it, circumducere, q. v.): penultimam,Gell. 4, 7, 2: syllaba circumflexa,id. 4, 7, 2, § 4; Diom. p. 425 P.; Prisc. p. 1287 ib. et saep.—Adv.: circum-flexē, with a circumflex: promere ( = pronuntiare) syllabam,Gell. 4, 7, 4: enuntiare syllabam, Porphyr. ad Hor. C. 4, 9, 1; id. ad Hor. S. 1, 1, 1.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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