circumflo

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

circum -flo, āre, v. n.,

I to blow round about; of the wind (very rare; in the class. per. only in the foll. exs.): circumflantibus Austris, Stat. Th. 11, 42.—

II Trop.: ab omnibus ventis invidiae circumflari, to be assailed by every blast. of envy , * Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 41, § 98.

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