circumstabat
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;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Divus Claudius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...taedium ac dissensionem diversa censentium et multitudine, quae circumstabat, unum rectorem iam et nominatim exposcente, armatos pro contione..."Divus Iulius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...quoad manus equitum Romanorum, quae armata praesidii causa circumstabat, inmoderatius perseveranti necem comminata est, etiam strictos gladios usque..."Liber XLII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...conserere, alios eminus tela ingerere. ingens Romanos terror circumstabat; nam neque conferti propellere eos, qui in tumulum conitebantur..."Liber XXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Hannone captis. Mox et ipse aderat ancepsque terror circumstabat, et e navibus tanta vi armatorum in terram evadente..."