circumfers
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. pres. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
Persa
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...faciet. non hi dicunt, verum ego. TOX. Age, circumfer mulsum, bibere da usque plenis cantharis. iam diu factum..."ad Marciam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...frui non liceret filio: circumfer per omnem notorum, ignotorum frequentiam oculos, occurrent tibi passi ubique maiora. Senserunt ista..."Liber IX
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...alia. Sunt enim in hac offendicula non nulla: circumfer oculos et occurrent. Bibliopolas Lugduni esse non putabam..."