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
- M
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..." - L
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..." - L
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..." - G
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..."