circum-vĕhor

circum-vĕhor, vectus, 3, v. dep., to ride around (in a carriage or on horseback), to sail around (class., but not in Cic.); constr. absol. or with acc. dependent on circum:

in terras orasque ultimas,

Plaut. Most. 4, 3, 4:

mare superum omne Graeciamque exoticam... Sumus circumvecti,

id. Men. 2, 1, 13: classe Pharon, Auct. B. Alex. 14; cf. Tac. Agr. 10:

classe ad Romanum agrum,

Liv. 8, 26, 1:

circumvectus Brundisii promunturium,

id. 10, 2, 4; cf. id. 44, 28, 5:

ab urbe ad aversa insulae,

id. 37, 27, 2:

equitibus ad diripienda hostis impedimenta circumvehi jussis,

Curt. 4, 15, 5:

navibus circumvecti milites,

Caes. B. C. 3, 63:

equo,

Liv. 3, 28, 1:

equites circumvectos ab tergo Gallicam invadere aciem,

id. 10, 29, 12;

Auct. B. Afr. 59: muliones collibus circumvehi jubet,

Caes. B. G. 7, 45:

rex circumvectus petram,

Curt. 7, 11, 14.—In part. pres.:

circumvehens Peloponnesum,

Nep. Timoth. 2, 1.—

Trop., of discourse (very rare): frustra circumvehor omnia verbis (i. e. I describe at large, seek to express by circumlocution, circumeo), Verg. Cir. 270 Sillig (cf. id. G. 3, 285:

circumvectamur): latius in dicendo,

Sol. 3.