I. A leading or conducting around: “aquarum,” Vitr. 8, 6, 5 sq.: “sphaerae,” the circumference, Hyg. Astr. 1, 2; of a person, Cod. Th. 4, 8, 1.—
II. Trop. *
A. A cheating, defrauding: “argenti,” Plaut. Capt. 5. —
B. The expansion of a thought, a period, only in Quint. 11, 3, 39; 9, 4, 118.