circumcurso

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

circum-curso, āre, v. freq. a. and n.,

to run round about , to run about in , at , or near something (ante- and post-class.; in Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 5, more recent editt. read concursare); act. : omnia, * Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 4: aliquam hinc illinc, * Cat. 68, 133.— Absol. : hac illac, * Ter. Heaut. 512: atria versari et circumcursare columnae... uti pueris videantur, Lucr. 4, 400: per omnes portas, Lact. 6, 12 (in paraphr. of Cic.).

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