circum-vādo, vāsi, 3, v.a., to assail or attack on every side, to encompass, beset (not ante-Aug.).
I Prop.: naves, Liv. 10, 2, 12: aliquem clamoribus turbidis, * Tac. A. 12, 43: redeuntem noctu, Plin. 9, 30, 48, § 92. — Pass. , Amm. 20, 6, 3.—
II Trop., ofterror falling upon one (so only a few times in Liv.): novus terror cum ex parte utrāque circumvasisset aciem, Liv. 9, 40, 13: barbaros, id. 34, 21, 5: urbem, id. 34, 38, 6.