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circum-plector , plexus, 3,
I.v. dep. a., to clasp around, embrace, to surround, encompass (class. in prose and poetry): “conjunctiones motu undique,Cic. Univ. 7 fin.: “domini patrimonium quasi thesaurum draco,id. Phil. 13, 5, 12: “arborem,Plin. 19, 4, 22, § 63; 13, 10, 19, § 65: “pharetram auro,Verg. A. 5, 312: “collem opere,to circumvallate, Caes. B. G. 7, 83: oppidum tragulis, Auct. B. Hisp. 32; Suet. Tib. 6: “statuam pennis, of the eagle,id. Dom. 6; Stat. S. 1, 5, 44.—
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    • Caesar, Gallic War, 7.83
    • Cicero, Philippics, 13.5.12
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 5.312
    • Suetonius, Domitianus, 6
    • Suetonius, Tiberius, 6
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 19.63
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 10.3.8
    • Statius, Silvae, 1.5
    • Cicero, Timaeus, 7
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