circumscrīptus

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circum-scrībo, psi, ptum, 3, v. a.

Prop., to draw a line around, to circumscribe, enclose in a circle (in good prose;

very freq. in Cic.): orbem,

Cic. Fin. 5, 8, 23:

lineas extremas umbrae,

Quint. 10, 2, 7:

virgulā stantem,

Cic. Phil. 8, 8, 23:

virgā regem,

Liv. 45, 12, 5:

aeneā fibulā pars auriculae latissima circumscribitur,

Col. 6, 5, 4:

terram surculo heliotropii,

Plin. 22, 21, 29, § 60.—

Trop.

To draw a line as the circumference of a thing (cf. Quint. 12, 10, 5), i. e. to define, encompass, enclose, lim it, bound, circumscribe (syn.: definio, describo, termino):

nullis ut terminis (orator) circumscribat aut definiat jus suum,

Cic. de Or. 1, 16, 70; cf.:

genus universum brevi circumscribi et definiri potest,

id. Sest. 45, 97:

exiguum nobis vitae curriculum natura circumscripsit, immensum gloriae,

id. Rab. Perd. 10, 30:

quibus regionibus vitae spatium circumscriptum est,

id. Arch. 11, 29:

ante enim circumscribitur mente sententia confestimque verba concurrunt,

id. Or. 59, 200:

locum habitandi alicui,

id. Par. 2, 18:

Oceanus undique circumscribit omnes terras et ambit,

Gell. 12, 13, 20:

uti mihi dicas et quasi circumscribas verbis, quid homo sit,

id. 4, 1, 12.—

To bring within narrow bounds, i. e. to contract, hem in, circumscribe, to hinder free action, to restrain, confine, limit, etc. (syn.: claudo, includo, coërceo).

Esp., of the restrictions or hinderances imposed by one magistracy or authority upon another:

Senatus credo praetorem eum circumscripsisset,

Cic. Mil. 33, 88 (cf. just before:

an consules in praetore coërcendo fortes fuissent),

id. Att. 7, 9, 2; id. Phil. 13, 9, 19; Caes. B. C. 1, 32; Auct. ap. Quint. 9, 3, 72:

ille se fluvio Rubicone et CC. milibus circumscriptum esse patiatur?

Cic. Phil. 6, 3, 5:

gulam et ventrem,

Sen. Ep. 108, 14:

circumscribere corpus et animo locum laxare,

id. ib. 15, 2:

laudes,

id. Cons. ad Helv. 19, 7.—

In gen.:

uno genere genus hoc aratorum,

to comprehend in one class, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 61, § 149 Zumpt:

totum Dionysium sex epitomis circumscripsit,

abridged, Col. 1, 1, 10:

ut luxuriam vilitate circumscribamus,

Plin. 22, 2, 3, § 4.—

In later medic. lang. circumscribi = minui, to abate, subside:

gravedo circumscribitur,

Cael. Aur. Tard. 5, 10; so id. Acut. 2, 10 fin. —

To encircle or go around by writing = scribendo circumdare, i. e. to deceive, cheat, circumvent, entrap, insnare (syn.:

circumvenio, decipio): fallacibus et captiosis interrogationibus circumscripti atque decepti,

Cic. Ac. 2, 15, 46; Plin. 7, 40, 41, § 131; 33, 3, 14, § 48: non circumscribetur, qui ita se gesserit, ut dicat, etc., will not be deceived, i. e. will commit no error, Sen. Q. N. 5, 1, 3; id. Ep. 82, 19.—

In mercantile lang., to deprive of money, to overreach, defraud:

adulescentulos,

Cic. Phil. 14, 3, 7; Juv. 10, 222; 14, 237:

ab Roscio HS. I[C ][C ]. circumscriptus,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 8, 24:

vectigalia,

to embezzle, Quint. Decl. 340.—

In law, to defeat the purpose of a law, a will, etc., by a forced or too literal interpretation:

legem,

Dig. 4, 3, 18 fin.:

ita circumscripto testamento,

Plin. Ep. 8, 18, 4; Front. Aquaed. 112: constitutiones, Lact. de Ira Dei, 8.—

Of circumlocution, to involve in language:

oratio rem simplicem circumscribens elocutione,

Auct. Her. 4, 32, 43; cf.:

facetis jocis sacrilegium circumscribens,

covering, Just. 39, 2, 5.—

To cancel; to declare invalid, to annul, invalidate, void, set aside (cf. circumduco, II. D.):

hoc omni tempore Sullano ex accusatione circumscripto,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 16, § 43 (sublato, circumducto, praetermisso, Ascon.):

circumscriptis igitur iis seutentiis, quas posui, etc.,

id. Fin. 3, 9, 31.—Hence, circumscriptus, a, um, P. a.

(Acc. to II. A.) In rhet., rounded into periods, periodic:

circumscripti verborum ambitus,

Cic. Or. 12, 38; cf. Auct. Her. 4, 32, 43; Quint. 12, 10, 5, and v. circumscriptio.— Adv.: circum-scriptē, in periods:

circumscripte numeroseque dicere,

Cic. Or. 66, 221: circumscripte complecti singulas res. id. N. D. 2, 59, 147.—

(Acc. to II. B.) Restricted, limited:

brevis et circumscripta quaedam explicatio,

Cic. de Or. 1, 42, 189:

(vis orationis) pressior et circumscriptior et adductior,

Plin. Ep. 1, 16, 4.— Adv.: circum-scriptē, summarily:

circumscripte et breviter ostendere,

Lact. 5, 14, 8; 5, 9, 20. — Sup. of the adj., and comp. and sup. of the adv. not in use.

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exsĭlĭum or exĭlĭum, ii, n. [exsul], banishment, exile.

Prop.:

exsilium non supplicium est, sed perfugium portusque supplicii... cum homines vincula, neces, ignominiasque vitant, quae sunt legibus constitutae, confugiunt quasi ad aram in exsilium,

Cic. Caecin. 34, 100: exsilium triplex est;

aut certorum locorum interdictio, aut lata fuga, ut omnium locorum interdicatur praeter certum locum, aut insulae vinculum, id est relegatio in insulam,

Dig. 48, 22, 5:

exsilio et relegatione civium ulciscentes tribunos,

Liv. 3, 10 fin.;

so with relegatio,

id. 4, 4, 6:

exsilium iis (terribile est), quibus quasi circumscriptus est habitandi locus, etc.,

Cic. Par. 2, 18:

exacti in exsilium innocentes,

id. Rep. 1, 40:

expulsus in exsilium,

id. Lael. 12, 42:

pulsus in exsilium,

id. de Or. 2, 13, 56:

eicere aliquem in exsilium,

id. Cat. 2, 6, 14:

ire, proficisci in exsilium,

id. ib. 1, 8, 20; id. Mur. 41, 89:

mittere in exsilium,

Liv. 7, 13, 9; Val. Max. 3, 7, 6; 5, 3, 2; Sen. Tranq. An. 11, 12; id. Ep. 24, 3:

esse in exsilio,

Cic. N. D. 3, 32, 80:

de exsilio reducere,

id. Att. 9, 14, 2:

revocare de exilio,

Liv. 27, 34, 14:

ab exsilio reducere,

Quint. 5, 11, 9:

ab exsilio revocare,

Tac. H. 1, 90; id. ib. 1, 77; 2, 92; Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 10:

jam redii de exsilio,

Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 106 et saep.—Prov.:

exilium patitur patriae qui se denegat,

Pub. Syr. 158 (Rib.).—

Transf. (mostly poet. and post-Aug.).

A place of exile, a retreat:

quodvis exsilium his est optatius quam patria,

Cic. Lig. 11, 33: Octavium et Antistium egressos exsilium, in easdem insulas redegit, Tac. H. 4, 44:

tutum orabant,

id. A. 13, 55:

diversa quaerere,

Verg. A. 3, 4:

multa patere fugienti,

Curt. 6, 4:

exsilium patria sede mutare,

id. 3, 7.—

(Abstr. pro concreto.) In plur.: exsilia, those who are banished, exiles:

plenum exsiliis mare,

Tac. H. 1, 2.

suc-cingo ( subc-), nxi, nctum, 3, v. a., to gird below or from below, to tuck up, gird, gird about, girdle (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose; cf. subligo).

Lit.:

crure tenus medio tunicas,

Juv. 6, 455:

astricti succingant ilia ventres,

Grat. Cyn. 271; cf.:

Virginem et Leonem Anguis intortus succingit,

Vitr. 9, 5 (7), 1:

illa (Scylla) feris atram canibus succingitur alvum,

Ov. M. 13, 732; cf. Lucr. 5, 892; Tib. 3, 4, 89:

eāpse sic succincta,

tucked up, Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 80:

amicus,

Mart. 2, 46, 7:

popa,

Prop. 4 (5), 3, 62:

cursor,

Mart. 12, 24, 7:

anus,

Ov. M. 8, 661:

Diana,

id. ib. 3, 156; cf.:

vestem ritu succincta Dianae,

id. ib. 10, 536; 9, 89.— Poet.:

succincta comas pinus,

with its bare trunk, Ov. M. 10, 103; 15, 603: quis illaec est, quae lugubri Succincta est stolā, girt about, Enn. ap. Non. 198, 2 (Trag. v. 134 Vahl.): succincti gladiis mediā regione cracentes, girt about, armed, id. ap. Fest. s. v. cracentes, p. 53 (Ann. v. 497 ib.):

gladio succinctus,

Auct. Her. 4, 52, 65:

succinctam pharetrā,

Verg. A. 1, 323:

pallā succincta cruenta,

id. ib. 6, 555; cf.

amictu,

id. ib. 12,401: succincti corda machaeris, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 9, 678 (Ann. v. 392 ib.): pugione succinctus, Anton. ap. Cic. Phil. 13, 16, 33:

cultro succinctus,

Liv. 7, 5, 3:

ferro,

id. 40, 9, 12; 40, 7, 7.—

Transf., to surround, furnish, provide, equip, fit out with any thing (syn.:

saepio, circumdo): quod multo se pluribus et majoribus canibus succinxerat,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 56, § 146:

frustra se terrore succinxerit,

Plin. Pan. 49, 3:

his animum succinge bonis,

Petr. 5 fin.:

succinctam latrantibus inguina monstris,

Verg. E. 6, 75:

Scylla rapax canibus succincta Molossis,

id. Cul. 330:

virgineam canibus succincta figuram,

Tib. 3, 4, 89:

Carthago succincta portubus,

Cic. Agr. 2, 32, 87:

succinctus armis legionibusque,

Liv. 21, 10, 4:

maximarum gentium viribus,

Just. 6, 1, 2:

totius ferme Orientis viribus,

id. 35, 1, 9:

horum scientiā debet esse succinctus,

Quint. 12, 5, 1:

patriā papyro,

Juv. 4, 24.—Hence, succinctus, a, um, P. a. (very rare and post-Aug.).

Prepared, ready for any thing:

proni atque succincti ad omnem clausulam,

Quint. 2, 2, 12.—

Contracted, short, concise, succinct ( poet. and post-Aug.; cf.:

brevis, circumscriptus): libelli,

Mart. 2, 1, 3:

arbores succinctiores,

Plin. 16, 10, 17, § 39:

succinctior brevitas,

Aug. Ep. 157 med.—Adv.: suc-cinctē, briefly, concisely, succinctly (late Lat.; cf.:

breviter, strictim): docere,

Amm. 28, 1, 2.— Comp.:

fari,

Sid. Ep. 1, 9:

dimicare,

Amm. 20, 11, 20.

suc-cingo ( subc-), nxi, nctum, 3, v. a., to gird below or from below, to tuck up, gird, gird about, girdle (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose; cf. subligo).

Lit.:

crure tenus medio tunicas,

Juv. 6, 455:

astricti succingant ilia ventres,

Grat. Cyn. 271; cf.:

Virginem et Leonem Anguis intortus succingit,

Vitr. 9, 5 (7), 1:

illa (Scylla) feris atram canibus succingitur alvum,

Ov. M. 13, 732; cf. Lucr. 5, 892; Tib. 3, 4, 89:

eāpse sic succincta,

tucked up, Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 80:

amicus,

Mart. 2, 46, 7:

popa,

Prop. 4 (5), 3, 62:

cursor,

Mart. 12, 24, 7:

anus,

Ov. M. 8, 661:

Diana,

id. ib. 3, 156; cf.:

vestem ritu succincta Dianae,

id. ib. 10, 536; 9, 89.— Poet.:

succincta comas pinus,

with its bare trunk, Ov. M. 10, 103; 15, 603: quis illaec est, quae lugubri Succincta est stolā, girt about, Enn. ap. Non. 198, 2 (Trag. v. 134 Vahl.): succincti gladiis mediā regione cracentes, girt about, armed, id. ap. Fest. s. v. cracentes, p. 53 (Ann. v. 497 ib.):

gladio succinctus,

Auct. Her. 4, 52, 65:

succinctam pharetrā,

Verg. A. 1, 323:

pallā succincta cruenta,

id. ib. 6, 555; cf.

amictu,

id. ib. 12,401: succincti corda machaeris, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 9, 678 (Ann. v. 392 ib.): pugione succinctus, Anton. ap. Cic. Phil. 13, 16, 33:

cultro succinctus,

Liv. 7, 5, 3:

ferro,

id. 40, 9, 12; 40, 7, 7.—

Transf., to surround, furnish, provide, equip, fit out with any thing (syn.:

saepio, circumdo): quod multo se pluribus et majoribus canibus succinxerat,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 56, § 146:

frustra se terrore succinxerit,

Plin. Pan. 49, 3:

his animum succinge bonis,

Petr. 5 fin.:

succinctam latrantibus inguina monstris,

Verg. E. 6, 75:

Scylla rapax canibus succincta Molossis,

id. Cul. 330:

virgineam canibus succincta figuram,

Tib. 3, 4, 89:

Carthago succincta portubus,

Cic. Agr. 2, 32, 87:

succinctus armis legionibusque,

Liv. 21, 10, 4:

maximarum gentium viribus,

Just. 6, 1, 2:

totius ferme Orientis viribus,

id. 35, 1, 9:

horum scientiā debet esse succinctus,

Quint. 12, 5, 1:

patriā papyro,

Juv. 4, 24.—Hence, succinctus, a, um, P. a. (very rare and post-Aug.).

Prepared, ready for any thing:

proni atque succincti ad omnem clausulam,

Quint. 2, 2, 12.—

Contracted, short, concise, succinct ( poet. and post-Aug.; cf.:

brevis, circumscriptus): libelli,

Mart. 2, 1, 3:

arbores succinctiores,

Plin. 16, 10, 17, § 39:

succinctior brevitas,

Aug. Ep. 157 med.—Adv.: suc-cinctē, briefly, concisely, succinctly (late Lat.; cf.:

breviter, strictim): docere,

Amm. 28, 1, 2.— Comp.:

fari,

Sid. Ep. 1, 9:

dimicare,

Amm. 20, 11, 20.