gyrum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →gyrus, gyri:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
circle, ring; circuit; course; circular course for training/racing horses;
acc. sg.gen. pl.
Examples
Liber I
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...excusso Leucus Remusque lacerto,optima gens flexis in gyrum Sequana frenis, 425et docilis rector monstrati Belga couinni,Aruernique..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...componitur; mensis artiore praecingitur circulo; angustissimum habet dies gyrum, sed et hic ab initio ad exitum venit..."Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...solent. Stellis intra signiferum cursus est, hunc premunt gyrum. At cometae ubique cernuntur: non magis certum est illis..."Divus Iulius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...spatio circi ab utraque parte producto et in gyrum euripo addito quadrigas bigasque et equos desultorios agitaverunt nobilissimi..."Liber III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...tribus exactis ubi quarta accesserit aestas, carpere mox gyrum incipiat gradibusque sonare compositis, sinuetque alterna uolumina crurum, sitque..."Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...fugit, sed decipit ora sequentis et redit in gyrum, ne sit suus inpetus hosti: inminet hic sequiturque parem..."Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...timet et densi circumstant sacra ministri, flectitur in gyrum nec longius audet abire spemque suam motis avidus circumvolat..."