circumstabant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →circumsto, circumstare, circumsteti, circumstatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
stand/gather/crowd around, surround, beset; be on either side;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XXX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...belli opera remiserat, quae multa simul undique eum circumstabant. Uticam obsidebat; castra in conspectu Hasdrubalis erant; Carthaginienses deduxerant..."Liber IX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...erat, ita ignominiae obiectus; tum deinceps singulae legiones. Circumstabant armati hostes, exprobrantes eludentesque; gladii etiam plerisque intentati..."