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
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..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...medio autem caespes cum herbis excisus favum sustinebat. Circumferebat Aegyptius puer clibano argenteo panem. <. . .> Atque ipse etiam taeterrima..."