circumlitas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →circumlino, circumlinere, circumlevi, circumlitus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
smear/anoint all over (with); decorate, daub/paint around, paint background;
acc. pl. perf. pass. part.
Examples
- L
ad Helviam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...inesse, tum inania et specioso ac deceptorio fuco circumlita inueni, intra nihil habentia fronti suae simile: nunc..." - M
Liber IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...prohoemio debet oratio, neque tamen deducta semper atque circumlita, sed saepe simplici atque inlaboratae similis nec verbis vultuque..." - P
Metamorphoses III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...flamma propiore calescit, non aliter quam cum summis circumlita taedis admotas rapiunt vivacia sulphura flammas. o quotiens voluit..."