cinctam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cinctus, cincta, cinctum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
surrounded/encircled; surrounded (by friends/people/enemy); bordered, enclosed;; having one's dress girt in special way; fastened round; [w/alte => for action];
acc. sg. (f.) - Entry →cingo, cingere, cinxi, cinctus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
surround/encircle/ring; enclose; beleaguer; accompany; gird, equip; ring (tree);
acc. sg. perf. pass. part.
Examples
Liber I
Aulus Gellius
"...Pompei habuit: "Testis est Sicilia, quam multis undique cinctam periculis, non terrore belli, sed consilii celeritate explicavit..."Metamorphoses X
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...Cythereia curat litora, non alto repetit Paphon aequore cinctam piscosamque Cnidon gravidamve Amathunta metallis; abstinet et caelo: caelo..."Liber XXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...legati uix regredi Capuam iam duplici fossa ualloque cinctam potuerunt. Cum maxime Capua circumuallaretur, Syracusarum oppugnatio ad finem..."
