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1 circum-flectō
circum-flectō flexī, flexus, ere, to bend, turn about (of a charioteer): longos cursūs, V. -
2 circumflecto
circum-flecto, xi, xum, 3, v. a., to bend or turn about (Verg. and post-class. writers); prop. of the charioteer in the circus;II.hence, transf.' longos cursus,
Verg. A. 5, 131; 3, 430.—Trop.:B.circumflexa saecula,
returning upon themselves, Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 391:anceps labyrinthus et error circumflexus,
full of windings and turnings, Prud. Apoth. 71.—In later gram. t. t., to mark with a circumflex, to pronounce as long (in Quint., instead of it, circumducere, q. v.):penultimam,
Gell. 4, 7, 2:syllaba circumflexa,
id. 4, 7, 2, § 4; Diom. p. 425 P.; Prisc. p. 1287 ib. et saep.— Adv.: circum-flexē, with a circumflex:promere ( = pronuntiare) syllabam,
Gell. 4, 7, 4: enuntiare syllabam, Porphyr. ad Hor. C. 4, 9, 1; id. ad Hor. S. 1, 1, 1.
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