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circumflŭus , a, um, adj. circumfluo (poet. or in post-Aug. prose).
I. Act., flowing around, circumfluent: “umor,” Ov. M. 1, 30: “amnis,” id. ib. 15, 739: “mare,” Plin. 2, 66, 66, § 166.—More freq.,
II. Pass., flowed around, surrounded with water: “insula,” Ov. M. 15, 624: “tellus Hadriaco ponto,” Luc. 4, 407: “Carthago pelago,” Sil. 15, 220: “urbs Ponto,” Val. Fl. 5, 442: campi Euphrate et Tigre, * Tac. A. 6, 37: “omnis circumfluo ambitu Pontus est,” Amm. 22, 8, 46.—
B. In gen., surrounded, encircled: “chlamys limbo Maeonio,” Stat. Th. 6, 540: “genitrix gemmis,” Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 138.—Fig.: mens luxu, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 40.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15.624
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.30
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15.739
    • Tacitus, Annales, 6.37
    • Lucan, Civil War, 4.407
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 5.442
    • Statius, Thebias, 6
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