prae-cingo, nxi, nctum, 3, v. a., to gird about, to gird.
I Lit.: cincticulo praecinctus in sellā aput magistrum adsidere, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 26: det tunicam locuples: ego te praecingere possum, Mart. 14, 153, 1: ilia cultro, Grat. Cyn. 341.—More freq. mid.: praecingi, to gird one's self : cum strophio accurate praecingerere, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 538, 12: et latro et cautus praecingitur ense viator, Ov. Tr. 2, 271: praecincti recte pueri, properly girded , girded up , Hor. S. 2, 8, 70: ut male praecinctum puerum caverent, Suet. Caes. 45. —Poet.: nox mediis signis praecincta volabit, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 258 Müll. (Ann. v. 416 Vahl.): iter ... altius ac nos Praecinctis unum, to those more girded up , i. e. to more rapid travellers , Hor. S. 1, 5, 6.—
II Transf., in gen., to surround , encircle with any thing (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): fontem vallo, Prop. 4 (5), 4, 7; so, litora muro, Sil. 3, 243.—In pass. : Brundisium praecinctum pulcro portu, Enn. ap. Gell. 6, 6, 6 (Ann. v. 478 Vahl.): gemma per transversum lineā albā mediā praecingitur, Plin. 37, 9, 37, § 118; cf. id. 37, 7, 27, § 99: tellus praecincta circumfluo mari, id. 2, 66, 66, § 166: praecingitur gens mari, id. 5, 32, 40, § 143: parietes testaceo opere praecincti, covered , overlaid , Plin. Ep. 10, 48.