circumtono

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

circum-tŏno, ui, 1, v. a.,

I to thunder around; or, poet., to make a noise or clamor around : virum armis, Sil. 4, 254: aulam strepitu, id. 6, 216: montem undā, Claud. in Rufin. 1, 274.—

II Trop.: hunc circumtonuit gaudens Bellona cruentis (the figure taken from the clanging of the war-trumpets), Hor. S. 2, 3, 223.

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