I. To form a circle (of men) about one's self, or to gather in a company or circle for conversation, * Cic. Brut. 54, 200: “totis vero castris milites circulari et dolere, etc.,” Caes. B. C. 1, 64.—Hence,
II. Of mountebanks, to collect people around one's self, Sen. Ep. 40, 3; 52, 7.