(verb) : prae-cingo, nxi, nctum, 3
* To gird about, to gird.
* Lit.: cincticulo praecinctus in sellā aput magistrum adsidere,Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 26: det tunicam locuples: ego te praecingere possum,Mart. 14, 153, 1: ilia cultro,Grat. Cyn. 341.—More freq. mid.: praecingi, to gird one's self: cum strophio accurate praecingerere, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 538, 12: et latro et cautus praecingitur ense viator,Ov. Tr. 2, 271: praecincti recte pueri,properly girded, girded up,Hor. S. 2, 8, 70: ut male praecinctum puerum caverent,Suet. Caes. 45. —Poet.: nox mediis signis praecincta volabit, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 258 Müll. (Ann. v. 416 Vahl.): iter ... altius ac nos Praecinctis unum, to those more girded up, i. e. to more rapid travellers, Hor. S. 1, 5, 6.
* Transf., in gen., to surround, encircle with any thing (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): fontem vallo,Prop. 4 (5), 4, 7. so, litora muro,Sil. 3, 243.—In pass.: Brundisium praecinctum pulcro portu, Enn. ap. Gell. 6, 6, 6 (Ann. v. 478 Vahl.): gemma per transversum lineā albā mediā praecingitur,Plin. 37, 9, 37, § 118; cf. id. 37, 7, 27, § 99: tellus praecincta circumfluo mari,id. 2, 66, 66, § 166: praecingitur gens mari,id. 5, 32, 40, § 143: parietes testaceo opere praecincti,covered, overlaid,Plin. Ep. 10, 48.

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