(ambāgēs is),> f, only abl sing. ambage, and plur. ambāgēs, um
ambi + 1 AG-, a going around, roundabout way: variarum ambage viarum (of the labyrinth), O.: dolos tecti ambagesque resolvit, V.—Fig., of speech, digression, circumlocution, evasion: ambages mihi narrare, T.: per ambages et longa exorsa tenere, V.: pueris dignae, L.: missis ambagibus, without circumlocution, H.: positis ambagibus, O.—A riddle, enigma, dark saying: immemor ambagum suarum, O.: tacitae, a dumb show, L.: eā ambage Chalcedonii monstrabantur, Ta.: per ambages effigies ingenii sui, an enigmatical symbol of, L.
