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ad-jăcĕo , cŭi, no
I.sup., 2, v. n., to lie at or near, to be contiguous to, to border upon (most freq. used of the geog. position of a place).—Constr. with dat., acc., ad, or absol. (in the histt. very freq.).—
(α). With dat.: “Tuscus ager Romano adjacet,Liv. 2, 49, 9; “mari,id. 26, 42, 4; Plin. 6, 17, 21, § 56; Front. Strat. 3, 9, 5: “cum Romani adjacerent vallo,Tac. A. 1, 65: “munitionibus,id. ib. 4, 48: “adjacet undis moles,Ov. M. 11, 729: “quae adjacent torrenti Jeboc,Vulg. Deut. 2, 37.—Trop.: “velle adjacet mihi,Vulg. Rom. 7, 18; 7, 21.—
(β). With acc.: “gentes, quae mare illud adjacent,Nep. Tim. 2, 1: “Etruriam,Liv. 7, 12, 6 (v. Alschefski and Weissenb. ad h. l.).—
(γ). With ad: “ad Syrtim,Mel. 1, 7, 2; so perh. also Caes. B. G. 6, 33, 2: quae (regio) ad Aduatucos adjacet (for the lect. vulg. Aduatucos or Aduatucis), and id. B. C. 2, 1; v. adigo fin.
(δ). Absol.: “adjacet (via) et mollior et magis trita,Quint. 1, 6, 22: “adjacente Tiberi,Tac. H. 2, 93; so, “adjacentes populi, i. q. propinqui,contiguous, neighboring, Tac. A. 13, 55.—And adjăcentĭa , ium, n., the adjoining country: “lacum in adjacentia erupturum,Tac. A. 1, 79; 5, 14: “projecto nitore adjacentia inlustrare,Plin. 37, 9, 52, § 137.
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