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circum-vĕhor , vectus, 3, v. dep.,
I.to ride around (in a carriage or on horseback), to sail around (class., but not in Cic.); constr. absol. or with acc. dependent on circum: “in terras orasque ultimas,Plaut. Most. 4, 3, 4: “mare superum omne Graeciamque exoticam... Sumus circumvecti,id. Men. 2, 1, 13: classe Pharon, Auct. B. Alex. 14; cf. Tac. Agr. 10: “classe ad Romanum agrum,Liv. 8, 26, 1: “circumvectus Brundisii promunturium,id. 10, 2, 4; cf. id. 44, 28, 5: “ab urbe ad aversa insulae,id. 37, 27, 2: “equitibus ad diripienda hostis impedimenta circumvehi jussis,Curt. 4, 15, 5: “navibus circumvecti milites,Caes. B. C. 3, 63: “equo,Liv. 3, 28, 1: “equites circumvectos ab tergo Gallicam invadere aciem,id. 10, 29, 12; “Auct. B. Afr. 59: muliones collibus circumvehi jubet,Caes. B. G. 7, 45: “rex circumvectus petram,Curt. 7, 11, 14.—In part. pres.: “circumvehens Peloponnesum,Nep. Timoth. 2, 1.—
II. Trop., of discourse (very rare): frustra circumvehor omnia verbis (i. e. I describe at large, seek to express by circumlocution, circumeo), Verg. Cir. 270 Sillig (cf. id. G. 3, 285: “circumvectamur): latius in dicendo,Sol. 3.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (15):
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 7.45
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 3, 28.1
    • Plautus, Mostellaria, 4.3
    • Vergil, Georgics, 3.285
    • Caesar, Civil War, 3.63
    • Tacitus, Agricola, 10
    • Plautus, Menaechmi, 2.1
    • Cornelius Nepos, Timotheus, 2.1
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 8, 26
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 37, 27.2
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 10, 2.4
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 44, 28
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 10, 29.12
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 4.15.5
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 7.11.14
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