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
- L
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..." - G
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..." - T
Liber XXXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...duas diuisisset partes, unam radicibus montium circumduci ad rupem iussit, quae, fastigio altitudinis par, media ualle uelut abrupta..." - T
Liber XXXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...uidit, duas cohortes delectas ab dextro latere hostium circumduci iubet et ab tergo se ostendere priusquam concurrerent peditum..." - T
Liber XXX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...omisso metu uisere omnia, per castra qua uellent circumduci iussit; percontatusque satin per commodum omnia explorassent, datis..." - T
Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...proelium iubet: nihil trepidatione opus esse; suo iussu circumduci Albanum exercitum ut Fidenatium nuda terga invadant; idem imperat..."