circumsistite
Dictionary entries
- Entry →circumsisto, circumsistere, circumstiti, circumstatus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
stand/gather/crowd/take a stand around; surround, beset; be on either side;
pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
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Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...Quae in aere quoque sicut in aqua fit ; circumsistit enim omne corpus a quo impellitur. Nihil ergo opus..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...incedere, mimice ac moleste ridentem catuli ore Gallicani. circumsistite eam, et reflagitate, 'moecha putida, redde codicillos, redde putida..." - T
Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...superantem iam fauces nauem eius Polyxenidas tribus quinqueremibus circumsistit. nauis rostris icta supprimitur; telis obruuntur propugnatores, inter quos..." - P
Liber V
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...seni. simul populus effgies Agrippinae ac Neronis gerens circumsistit curiam faustisque in Caesarem ominibus falsas litteras et principe..."