circumducitur
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;
sg. pres. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Truculentus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...meam . triduom hoc saltem, dum aliquo miles circumducitur, sine me habere: siquidem habebo, tibi quoque etiam proderit..." - D
Satura I
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...lectica petit, sequiturque maritum languida uel praegnas et circumducitur uxor. hic petit absenti nota iam callidus arte ostendens..." - M
Liber XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...ultima syllaba nec acuta umquam excitatur nec flexa circumducitur, sed in gravem vel duas gravis cadit semper. Itaque..." - M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...sunt: alterum simplex, cum sensus unus longiore ambitu circumducitur, alterum quod constat membris et incisis, quod plures sensus..."