cingent
Dictionary entries
- 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);
pl. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...plura genera conspiciuntur: sunt bothyni, cum uelut corona cingente introrsus ingens caeli recessus est similis effossae in orbem..."Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...nemore abdito, cum Titan medium constituit diem, cingent, turba licens, Naides improbae, formosos solitae claudere fontibus, et somnis..."
Liber Primus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...cornibus igni colla pater niveique greges altaria cingent?' Accepere deae celerique per aethera lapsu diversas petiere vias..."
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from ACHILLEID
"...more tacebat Creta Rheae; te longus honos aeternaque cingent templa nec instabili fama superabere Delo, et ventis..."