circumcurro

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

circum-curro, ĕre, v. n.,

I to run round or about (not ante-Aug.), Vitr. 4, 6: circumcurrens linea, the periphery , Quint. 1, 10, 41.—*

II Trop.: eam artem (rhetoricen) circumcurrentem vocaverunt. quod in omni materiā diceret, universal , Quint. 2, 21, 7.