circumferebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →circumfero, circumferre, circumtuli, circumlatus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
carry/hand/pass/spread/move/take/cast around (in circle); publicize; divulge;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
de Tranquillitate Animi
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...seram periculosae auaritiae paenitentiam, et imitari uolentibus magnum circumferebat exemplar, cum inter triginta dominos liber incederet. Hunc tamen..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...medio autem caespes cum herbis excisus favum sustinebat. Circumferebat Aegyptius puer clibano argenteo panem. <. . .> Atque ipse etiam taeterrima..."