(adjective) : contĭgŭus, a, um, contingo (not ante-Aug.).
* Act. (lit. touching; hence), bordering upon, neighboring, contiguous, near; absol. or with dat.: (Pyramus et Thisbe) contiguas tenuere domos,Ov. M. 4, 57: Cappadoces,Tac. A. 2, 60: luna montibus (opp. admota caelo),Plin. 2, 9, 6, § 43: perit Valens quinquagesimo anno contiguus,Amm. 31, 14, 1: tibi,Ov. A. A. 3, 410.— *
* Pass., that may be touched, within reach: hunc ubi contiguum missae fore credidit hastae,Verg. A. 10, 457 (intra jactum teli, Serv.).—* Adv.: contĭgŭē (acc. to I.), closely: sequi aliquem,upon his heels,Mart. Cap. 9, § 909.

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