cingi
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);
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
- L
Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...tristes Erebi minas auidumque fatum. Te decet cingi comam floribus uernis, te caput Tyria cohibere mitra hederaue mollem..." - L
Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...fulgens quodque gemmarum nitor distinguit aurum, quo solent cingi comae. haec nostra nati dona nubenti ferant, sed ante..." 
Liber Quartus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...inter adhortantes uix sponte incedit Adrastus, contentus ferro cingi latus; arma manipli pone ferunt, uolucres portis auriga..."- G
Liber VI
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...contulit: praesidi tantum est, ut ne murus quidem cingi possit, neque quisquam egredi extra munitiones audeat." Oblata..." - P
Germania
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...Suionas aliud mare, pigrum ac prope inmotum, quo cingi cludique terrarum orbem hinc fides, quod extremus cadentis..."