circumducier
Dictionary entries
- Entry →circumduco, circumducere, circumduxi, circumductus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
lead out of the way/round about; cheat, mislead, trick out of; take/go around;; lead/wheel/draw a line/ring around/in a circle; prolong (sound); build around;
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...seruasti, ut haberes, quem ostenderes. Quousque me circumducis? quousque obliuisci fortunae meae non sinis? semel in triumpho ductus..."Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...constringi sine mora iussit et pannis obsitum vicatim circumduci ac mulieribus ostendi, deinde iugulari. Nullus denique tam abiectae..."Liber XXXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...duas diuisisset partes, unam radicibus montium circumduci ad rupem iussit, quae, fastigio altitudinis par, media ualle uelut abrupta..."Liber XXXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...uidit, duas cohortes delectas ab dextro latere hostium circumduci iubet et ab tergo se ostendere priusquam concurrerent peditum..."Liber XXX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...omisso metu uisere omnia, per castra qua uellent circumduci iussit; percontatusque satin per commodum omnia explorassent, datis..."Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...proelium iubet: nihil trepidatione opus esse; suo iussu circumduci Albanum exercitum ut Fidenatium nuda terga invadant; idem imperat..."