circumferens
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;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
- L
Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...aves scindit; per pectus et clunes certis ductibus circumferens eruditam manum frusta excutit, infelix, qui huic..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...Lares bullatos super mensam posuerunt, unus pateram vini circumferens "dii propitii " clamabat. Aiebat autem unum Cerdonem, alterum Felicionem..." - G
Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...autem, Iuliam Drusillam appellatam, per omnium dearum templa circumferens Minervae gremio imposuit alendamque et instituendam commendavit. Nec ullo..." - T
Liber II
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...relicta revocantibus qui rescindebant cedere in tutum coegit. Circumferens inde truces minaciter oculos ad proceres Etruscorum nunc singulos..."