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
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..."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..."Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...superantem iam fauces nauem eius Polyxenidas tribus quinqueremibus circumsistit. nauis rostris icta supprimitur; telis obruuntur propugnatores, inter quos..."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..."