circumfluus

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

circumflŭus, a, um, adj. [circumfluo] (poet. or in post-Aug. prose).

I Act. , flowing around , circumfluent : umor, Ov. M. 1, 30: amnis, id. ib. 15, 739: mare, Plin. 2, 66, 66, § 166.—More freq.,

II Pass. , flowed around , surrounded with water : insula, Ov. M. 15, 624: tellus Hadriaco ponto, Luc. 4, 407: Carthago pelago, Sil. 15, 220: urbs Ponto, Val. Fl. 5, 442: campi Euphrate et Tigre, * Tac. A. 6, 37: omnis circumfluo ambitu Pontus est, Amm. 22, 8, 46.—

B In gen., surrounded , encircled : chlamys limbo Maeonio, Stat. Th. 6, 540: genitrix gemmis, Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 138.—Fig.: mens luxu, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 40.

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