circum-ăgo, ēgi, actum, 3, v. a.
I To drive or turn in a circle , turn round (most freq. since the Aug. per.; not in Cic. or Quint.): impera suovetaurilia circumagi, Cato R. R. 141, 1.—And with two acc. (on account of circum): terram fundumque meum suovetaurilia circumagi jussi, Cato R. R. 141, § 2: (annus) qui solstitiali circumagitur orbe, Liv. 1, 19, 6: chamaeleonis oculos ipsos circumagi totos tradunt, Plin. 11, 37, 55, § 152.— Act. in mid. sense (very rare): Aegeum pelagus summotas terras hinc ad promunturium, quod Sunium vocatur, magno ambitu mollique circumagit, rolls around , surrounds , Mel. 2, 2, 8.—
2 To drive around , produce by going around : pinctis bobus ... aratro circumagebant sulcum, Varr. L. L. 5, § 143 Müll.—Hence,
B T. t., to manumit a slave by turning him round. since the slave, in such a case, was taken by his master with the right hand, and turned around in a circle (cf. vertigo, Casaub. Pers. 5, 75 sq., and Dict. of Antiq.); fig.: qui se illi (philosophiae) subjecit et tradidit, statim circumagitur: hoc enim ipsum philosophiae servire libertas est, Sen. Ep. 8, 6.—
C Trop.
1 Of time, with se , or more freq. in pass , to pass away , to be spent (so most freq. in temp. perf. and in Liv.): in ipso conatu rerum circumegit se annus, Liv. 9, 18, 14: sed prius se aestas circumegit, quam, etc., id. 23, 39, 4: prius circumactus est annus, quam, etc., id. 6, 38, 1: circumactis decem et octo mensibus, id. 9, 33, 3; 6, 1, 4; 26, 40, 1; 27, 30, 11; 44, 36, 1; Plin. 7, 16, 17, § 76; and in tmesis: circum tribus actis annis, Lucr. 5, 881.—In temp. pres. : annus, qui solstitiali circumagitur orbe, Liv. 1, 19, 6: nobis in apparatu ipso annus circumagitur, id. 24, 8, 8.—
2 Of the vicissitudes of fortune, etc.: cum videamus tot varietates tam volubili orbe circumagi, Plin. Ep. 4, 24, 6.—
II To turn , turn about , wheel around : equos frenis, Liv. 1, 14, 9; 8, 7, 10; 10, 11, 1; Curt. 3, 11, 14 sq.: collum in aversam se, Plin. 11, 47, 107, § 256: corpora, Tac. H. 4, 29: se ad dissonos clamores, Liv. 4, 28, 2: circumagitur, cum venit, imago (in speculis), Lucr. 4, 316 (340): circumagente se vento, Liv. 37, 16, 4: aciem, id. 42, 64, 5: signa, id. 10, 36, 9; 6, 24, 7; Curt. 4, 6, 14: ut qui (milites) ultimi stabant... verti tamen et in frontem circumagi possent, id. 4, 13, 32: se, to turn about , Plin. 6, 31, 36, § 199; 16, 41, 80, § 220: legiones, to lead back , Flor. 3, 21, 6. —Hence, prov.: circumagetur hic orbis, the tide will turn , Liv. 42, 42, 6; cf.: praecipua cenationum rotunda, quae perpetuo diebus ac noctibus vice mundi circumageretur, Suet. Ner. 31.—
2 Esp., to agitate, disturb: verna (mala) stomacho inutilia sunt, alvom, vesicam circumagunt, Plin. 23, 6, 54, § 100.—
B Trop.: hic paululum circumacta fortuna est, changes , is changed , Flor. 2, 2, 22: sed unā voce, quā Quirites eos pro militibus appellarat, tam facile circumegit et flexit, Suet. Caes. 70: quo te circumagas? whither will you now turn? Juv. 9, 81: universum prope humanum genus circumegit in se, brought over to his side , Plin. 26, 3, 7, § 13.—
III (Acc. to circum, II. C.) To run or drive about , proceed from one place to another : (milites) huc illuc clamoribus hostium circumagi, Tac. H. 3, 73: nil opus est te Circumagi, i. e. that you wander about with me , * Hor. S. 1, 9, 17.—
B Trop.: non pendere ex alterius vultu ac nutu, nec alieni momentis animi circumagi, Liv. 39, 5, 3: rumoribus vulgi circumagi, id. 44, 34, 4; 26, 8, 3.—
IV Aliquem aliquā re = circumdare, to surround with something : fratrem Saturnum muro, Lact. 1, 14.
XIII —Hence, circumactus , a, um, P. a., bent around , curved (perh. only in the two Plin.): in orbem circumactus, Plin. 9, 33, 52, § 102; 15, 14, 15, § 51; 16, 34, 62, § 146: sensim circumactis curvatisque litoribus, Plin. Ep. 6, 16, 12.