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
- G
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..." - G
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..." - T
Liber XLII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...conserere, alios eminus tela ingerere. ingens Romanos terror circumstabat; nam neque conferti propellere eos, qui in tumulum conitebantur..." - T
Liber XXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Hannone captis. Mox et ipse aderat ancepsque terror circumstabat, et e navibus tanta vi armatorum in terram evadente..."