hostile

cingo, xi, nctum, 3, v. a. [cf. Gr kullos, kurtos;

Lat. curvus, and clingo,

Curt. Griech. Etym. p. 545 sq. ], to go round in a circle, to surround, encompass, environ, gird, wreathe, crown, etc. (class. in prose and poetry).

Prop

In gen.:

quid autem interius mente? Cingatur igitur corpore externo,

i. e. it must be enclosed in a body, Cic. N. D 1, 11, 27:

non enim coronà consessus vester cinctus est, ut solebat,

id. Mil. 1, 1; cf.:

judicium insolitā trepidum cinxere coronă,

Luc. 1, 321;

tris (navīs) Eurus... Inhdit vadis atque aggere cingit harenae,

Verg. A 1, 112: cincta serpentibus Hydra, id. ib 7, 658: pennae ritu coepere volucrum Cingere utrumque latus, to cover, Ov M. 6, 718, apio fasces et secto cingere porro, Col. 10, 371.—

Esp.

To surround the body with a girdle, to gird on (the sword), to gird; esp. freq in pass. with abl., to be girded, encircled with something. iam quasi zonā, liene cinctus ambulo, Plaut Curc. 2, 1, 5; Curt. 3, 3, 19; cf.:

cui lati clavi jus erit, ita cingatur, ut, etc.,

Quint. 11, 3, 138:

ut cingeretur fluxiore cincturā,

Suet. Caes. 45:

Hispano cingitur gladio,

Liv. 7, 10, 5; 38, 21, 13; Suet. Calig 49:

ferro,

id. Aug. 35: ense, Ov F. 2, 13: cingor fulgentibus armis, Verg A. 2, 749; 11, 188, 11, 536; his cingi telis, id ib. 2, 520: ense latus cingit, Ov F. 2, 784; cf. Stat. Th. 4, 41:

cinctas resolvite vestes, Ov M. 1, 382. filios balteis,

Vulg. Lev 8, 13.— Poet., in pass with acc. (cf. accingor, II., and Zumpt, Gr §

458): inutile ferrum Cingitur,

Verg. A. 2, 511: cinctaeque ad pectora vestes Bracchia docta movent, Ov M. 6, 59.—Without case: Syrinx, Ov M. 1, 695;

puer alte cinctus,

Hor. S. 2, 8, 10.—Hence, in late Lat. cinctus = armis instructus, armatus, armed, equipped, enrolled:

cinctus in aliā militiā,

Dig. 39, 1, 38; cf. ib. 39, 1, 25.—As a girding up of the Roman dress was necessary in pursuits requiring physical action, hence, cingor (cf accingor), to make one ' s self ready for any thing, to prepare:

cingitur, certe expedit se,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 152;

cingitur ipse furens certatim in proelia Turnus,

Verg. A. 11, 486; cf.

supra,

Quint. 11, 3, 138; Hor S. 2, 8, 10; Ov. M. 6, 59.—

To encircle with a garland or crown, to crown (freq., esp in the poets).

Of the head:

muralique caput summum cinxere coronā,

Lucr. 2, 607; cf.

Ov A. A. 3, 392 tempora floribus,

Hor. C. 3, 25, 20;

Verg A. 5, 71: spicis,

Tib. 2, 1, 4 et saep.:

comam lauro,

Hor. C. 3, 30, 16; cf.:

Graias barbara vitta comas,

Ov. Tr. 4, 4, 78; Verg. A. 12, 163: de tenero cingite flore caput, Ov F 3, 254.— Poet.:

Atlantis, cinctum assidue cui nubibus atris Piniferum caput et vento pulsatur et imbri,

Verg. A. 4, 248; 7, 658; Prop. 4 (5), 1, 61.—

To encircle other parts of the body:

cujus lacertos anuli mei cingant,

Mart. 11, 100, 2.—

Of places, to surround, encircle, invest, enclose (the prevailing signif. in prose, esp. in the histt.; syn.: circumdo, claudo): (Tellus) oras maris undique cingens, Lucr. 6, 633; Cat. 64, 185; 64, 286:

flumen Dubis paene totum oppidum cingit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 38 provincia mari cincta, Cic. Fl. 12, 27:

urbe portus ipse cingitur et continetur,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 37, § 96 Zumpt:

quod moenibus cingebatur,

Tac. A. 13, 41:

quae (terra) magnā ex parte cingitur fluctibus, speciem insulae praebet, etc.,

Curt. 3, 1, 13; 8, 10, 23; Ov A. A. 2, 469: cingitur insula tribus millibus passuum, i.e. has a circuit of, etc., Plin. 6, 12, 13, § 32.— Poet.:

cinxerunt aethera nimbi,

covered, Verg. A. 5, 13:

medium diem cinxere tenebrae,

Sen. Herc. Fur. 939.— Trop.;

diligentius urbem religione quam ipsis moenibus cingitis,

fortify, Cic. N. D. 3, 40, 94.—

In milit. lang., to surround a place or army for defence or in a hostile manner, to fortify, to invest, be set, besiege:

coronā militum cincta urbs,

Liv. 7, 27, 7: castra vallo, id 7, 39, 8 equites cornua cinxere. covered, id. 23, 29, 3:

ultimum agmen validā manu,

to cover, Curt. 4, 13, 30:

urbem obsidione,

to besieye, Verg. A. 3, 52;

dextera cingitur amni,

id. ib. 9, 469:

(hostem) stationibus in modum obsidii,

Tac. A. 6, 34:

cingi ab armis hostium,

Ov. P. 2, 8, 69; Tib. 2, 3, 37, Prop. 3 (4), 3, 42.—Trop Sicilia multis undique cincta persons. Cio. Imp. Pomp 11, 30.—

To escort, to accompany inermi item regi praetor Achaeorum et unus ex purpuratis latus cingebant, Liv 32, 39, 8:

dum latus sancti cingit tibi turba senatus, Ov P. 4, 9, 17: nec noscitur ulli, Agminibus comitum qui mode cinctus erat,

id. Tr. 1, 5, 30:

cincta virgo matrum catervā, id M. 12, 216, Vell 2, 14, 1,

Tac. A. 1, 77;

Sil 4, 448,

Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 322 —

To peel off the bark around:

cingere est deglabrare,

Dig. 47, 7, 6 Pr, cf. Plin 17, 24, 37, § 234 sqq.

circum-do, dĕdi, dătum, dăre, v. a., lit. to put, set, or place around, i. e. both to wrap around (e. g. a mantle). and also to enclose (e. g. a town with a wall; syn.: cingo, vestio, saepio, circumvallo al.), with a twofold construction (cf. Zumpt, Gr. § 418).

Aliquid (alicui rei), to place something [p. 337] around something, to put, set around, etc. (class. in prose and poetry).

With dat.:

aër omnibus est rebus circumdatus appositusque,

Lucr. 6, 1035:

moenibus subjectos prope jam ignes circumdatosque restinximus,

Cic. Cat. 3, 1, 2:

circumdare fossam latam cubiculari lecto,

id. Tusc. 5, 20, 59:

satellites armatos contioni,

Liv. 34, 27, 5:

hinc patre hinc Catulo lateri circumdatis, Romam rediit,

i. e. one on each side, id. 30, 19, 9; 3, 28, 2:

milites sibi,

Tac. A. 13, 25:

arma umeris,

Verg. A. 2, 510:

licia tibi,

id. E. 8, 74:

vincula collo,

Ov. M. 1, 631:

bracchia collo,

id. ib. 9, 459; 9, 605; 6, 479;

and in tmesis: collo dare bracchia circum,

Verg. A. 6, 700 (cf. the simplex:

bracchia cervici dare,

Hor. C. 3, 9, 3):

lectis aulaea purpura,

Curt. 9, 7, 15:

cum maxime in hostiam itineri nostro circumdatam intuens,

i. e. divided, and part placed on each side of the way, Liv. 40, 13, 4.—

Without a dat.:

caedere januam saxis, ligna et sarmenta circumdare ignemque subicere coeperunt,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 27, § 69; 2, 1, 31, § 80:

ignes,

id. Pis. 38, 93:

custodias,

id. Cat. 4, 4, 8:

armata circumdatur Romana legio,

Liv. 1, 28, 3:

exercitu circumdato summā vi Cirtam irrumpere nititur,

Sall. J. 25, 9:

circumdatae stationes,

Tac. A. 1, 50:

murus circumdatus,

Caes. B. G. 1, 38:

turris toto opere circumdedit,

id. ib. 7, 72:

circumdato vallo,

Curt. 3, 2, 2:

lauream (sc. capiti),

Suet. Vit. 9.— Subst.: circumdăti, ōrum, m., those around, the surrounding soldiers:

circumdatos Antonius adloquitur,

Tac. H. 3, 63.—With an abl. loci:

toto oppido munitiones,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 34 fin.:

equites cornibus,

Liv. 33, 18, 9; and without dat., Tac. A. 14, 53.—With two accs.:

circumdare terram radices,

Cato, R. R. 114;

and per tmesin,

id. ib. 157.—

Trop. (most freq. in Tac.):

cancelli, quos mihi ipse circumdedi,

Cic. Quint. 10, 36:

nescio an majora vincula majoresque necessitates vobis quam captivis vestris fortuna circumdederit,

Liv. 21, 43, 3:

egregiam famam paci circumdedit,

i. e. conferred, imparted, Tac. Agr. 20; cf.:

principatus inanem ei famam,

id. H. 4, 11; id. Or. 37:

principi ministeria,

id. H. 2, 59; id. A. 14, 15.—In a Greek construction:

infula virgineos circumdata comptus,

encompassing, Lucr. 1, 88; Tac. H. 4, 45; id. A. 16, 25.—

Aliquem or aliquid (aliquā re), to surround some person or thing ( with something), to encompass, enclose, encircle with.

Lit.

In gen.:

animum (deus) circumdedit corpore et vestivit extrinsecus,

Cic. Univ. 6 fin.; cf.:

aether corpore concreto circumdatus undique,

Lucr. 5, 469:

portum moenibus,

Nep. Them. 6, 1:

regio insulis circumdata,

Cic. Fl. 12, 27:

villam statione,

Tac. A. 14, 8:

suam domum spatio,

id. G. 16:

collis operibus,

id. A. 6, 41:

vallo castra,

id. H. 4, 57:

Othonem vexillis,

id. ib. 1, 36:

canibus saltus,

Verg. E. 10, 57:

circumdato me bracchiis: meum collum circumplecte,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 106:

collum filo,

Cat. 64, 377:

(aurum) circumdatum argento,

Cic. Div. 2, 65, 134: furvis circumdatus alis Somnus, * Tib. 2, 1, 89:

ad talos stola demissa et circumdata palla,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 99:

circumdedit se zonā,

Suet. Vit. 16:

circumdata corpus amictu,

Ov. M. 4, 313; cf. id. ib. 3, 666:

tempora vittis,

id. ib. 13, 643:

Sidoniam picto chlamydem circumdata limbo,

Verg. A. 4, 137.—

Esp. of a hostile surrounding, to surround, encompass, invest, besiege, etc.:

oppidum vallo et fossā,

Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 10:

oppidum quinis castris,

Caes. B. C. 3, 9:

cum legati... multitudine domum ejus circumdedissent,

Nep. Hann. 12, 4:

vallo atque fossā moenia circumdat,

Sall. J. 23, 1:

oppidum coronā,

Liv. 4, 47, 5:

quos (hostes) primo Camillus vallo circumdare est adortus,

id. 6, 8, 9:

fossā valloque urbem,

id. 25, 22, 8:

fossā duplicique vallo circumdatā urbe,

id. 28, 3, 5:

hostes exercitu toto,

Curt. 3, 8, 4. —

Trop.:

omni autem totam figuram mundi levitate circumdedit,

Cic. Univ. 6 init.:

exiguis quibusdam finibus oratoris munus circumdedisti,

have confined, circumscribed, id. de Or. 1, 62, 264; cf.:

minus octoginta annis circumdatum aevum,

Vell. 1, 17, 2:

pueritiam robore,

Tac. A. 12, 25:

fraude,

Sil. 7, 134; cf. id. 12, 477:

monstrorum novitate,

Quint. Decl. 18, 1.

circum-do, dĕdi, dătum, dăre, v. a., lit. to put, set, or place around, i. e. both to wrap around (e. g. a mantle). and also to enclose (e. g. a town with a wall; syn.: cingo, vestio, saepio, circumvallo al.), with a twofold construction (cf. Zumpt, Gr. § 418).

Aliquid (alicui rei), to place something [p. 337] around something, to put, set around, etc. (class. in prose and poetry).

With dat.:

aër omnibus est rebus circumdatus appositusque,

Lucr. 6, 1035:

moenibus subjectos prope jam ignes circumdatosque restinximus,

Cic. Cat. 3, 1, 2:

circumdare fossam latam cubiculari lecto,

id. Tusc. 5, 20, 59:

satellites armatos contioni,

Liv. 34, 27, 5:

hinc patre hinc Catulo lateri circumdatis, Romam rediit,

i. e. one on each side, id. 30, 19, 9; 3, 28, 2:

milites sibi,

Tac. A. 13, 25:

arma umeris,

Verg. A. 2, 510:

licia tibi,

id. E. 8, 74:

vincula collo,

Ov. M. 1, 631:

bracchia collo,

id. ib. 9, 459; 9, 605; 6, 479;

and in tmesis: collo dare bracchia circum,

Verg. A. 6, 700 (cf. the simplex:

bracchia cervici dare,

Hor. C. 3, 9, 3):

lectis aulaea purpura,

Curt. 9, 7, 15:

cum maxime in hostiam itineri nostro circumdatam intuens,

i. e. divided, and part placed on each side of the way, Liv. 40, 13, 4.—

Without a dat.:

caedere januam saxis, ligna et sarmenta circumdare ignemque subicere coeperunt,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 27, § 69; 2, 1, 31, § 80:

ignes,

id. Pis. 38, 93:

custodias,

id. Cat. 4, 4, 8:

armata circumdatur Romana legio,

Liv. 1, 28, 3:

exercitu circumdato summā vi Cirtam irrumpere nititur,

Sall. J. 25, 9:

circumdatae stationes,

Tac. A. 1, 50:

murus circumdatus,

Caes. B. G. 1, 38:

turris toto opere circumdedit,

id. ib. 7, 72:

circumdato vallo,

Curt. 3, 2, 2:

lauream (sc. capiti),

Suet. Vit. 9.— Subst.: circumdăti, ōrum, m., those around, the surrounding soldiers:

circumdatos Antonius adloquitur,

Tac. H. 3, 63.—With an abl. loci:

toto oppido munitiones,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 34 fin.:

equites cornibus,

Liv. 33, 18, 9; and without dat., Tac. A. 14, 53.—With two accs.:

circumdare terram radices,

Cato, R. R. 114;

and per tmesin,

id. ib. 157.—

Trop. (most freq. in Tac.):

cancelli, quos mihi ipse circumdedi,

Cic. Quint. 10, 36:

nescio an majora vincula majoresque necessitates vobis quam captivis vestris fortuna circumdederit,

Liv. 21, 43, 3:

egregiam famam paci circumdedit,

i. e. conferred, imparted, Tac. Agr. 20; cf.:

principatus inanem ei famam,

id. H. 4, 11; id. Or. 37:

principi ministeria,

id. H. 2, 59; id. A. 14, 15.—In a Greek construction:

infula virgineos circumdata comptus,

encompassing, Lucr. 1, 88; Tac. H. 4, 45; id. A. 16, 25.—

Aliquem or aliquid (aliquā re), to surround some person or thing ( with something), to encompass, enclose, encircle with.

Lit.

In gen.:

animum (deus) circumdedit corpore et vestivit extrinsecus,

Cic. Univ. 6 fin.; cf.:

aether corpore concreto circumdatus undique,

Lucr. 5, 469:

portum moenibus,

Nep. Them. 6, 1:

regio insulis circumdata,

Cic. Fl. 12, 27:

villam statione,

Tac. A. 14, 8:

suam domum spatio,

id. G. 16:

collis operibus,

id. A. 6, 41:

vallo castra,

id. H. 4, 57:

Othonem vexillis,

id. ib. 1, 36:

canibus saltus,

Verg. E. 10, 57:

circumdato me bracchiis: meum collum circumplecte,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 106:

collum filo,

Cat. 64, 377:

(aurum) circumdatum argento,

Cic. Div. 2, 65, 134: furvis circumdatus alis Somnus, * Tib. 2, 1, 89:

ad talos stola demissa et circumdata palla,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 99:

circumdedit se zonā,

Suet. Vit. 16:

circumdata corpus amictu,

Ov. M. 4, 313; cf. id. ib. 3, 666:

tempora vittis,

id. ib. 13, 643:

Sidoniam picto chlamydem circumdata limbo,

Verg. A. 4, 137.—

Esp. of a hostile surrounding, to surround, encompass, invest, besiege, etc.:

oppidum vallo et fossā,

Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 10:

oppidum quinis castris,

Caes. B. C. 3, 9:

cum legati... multitudine domum ejus circumdedissent,

Nep. Hann. 12, 4:

vallo atque fossā moenia circumdat,

Sall. J. 23, 1:

oppidum coronā,

Liv. 4, 47, 5:

quos (hostes) primo Camillus vallo circumdare est adortus,

id. 6, 8, 9:

fossā valloque urbem,

id. 25, 22, 8:

fossā duplicique vallo circumdatā urbe,

id. 28, 3, 5:

hostes exercitu toto,

Curt. 3, 8, 4. —

Trop.:

omni autem totam figuram mundi levitate circumdedit,

Cic. Univ. 6 init.:

exiguis quibusdam finibus oratoris munus circumdedisti,

have confined, circumscribed, id. de Or. 1, 62, 264; cf.:

minus octoginta annis circumdatum aevum,

Vell. 1, 17, 2:

pueritiam robore,

Tac. A. 12, 25:

fraude,

Sil. 7, 134; cf. id. 12, 477:

monstrorum novitate,

Quint. Decl. 18, 1.

circum-grĕdĭor, gressus, grĕdi, v dep [gradior], to go or walk around, travel about (esp. in a hostile manner; post-Aug., several times in Tac, elsewhere rare).

Absol., Tac. A. 1, 64, 2, 17; 12, 28.—

With acc.: exercitum, * Sall. H. 4, 61, 21 Dietsch:

terga,

Tac. A. 2, 25 ' Syriam, Aur Vict. Caes. 21' lacunam, Amm. 16, 12, 59.

circum-sĕdĕo ( sĭdĕo), sēdi, sessum, 2, v. a., to sit around a person or thing, to surround.

In gen., absol.:

inter tot milia populi circumsedentis,

App. M. 3, p. 130, 2; Sid. Ep. 3, 13.—With acc.:

florentes amicorum turba circumsedet: circa eversos ingens solitudo est,

Sen. Ep. 9, 9.— Esp.,

To encamp around in a hostile manner, to besiege, blockade, invest, encompass, beset (in Cic. and Liv. several times;

elsewhere rare): qui Mutinam circumsedent,

Cic. Phil. 7, 8, 21; 10, 4, 10; id. Deiot. 9, 25; id. Att. 9, 12, 3; 9, 18, 2; 14, 9, 3; 15, 9, 2; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 14; Sall. J. 21, 3; Nep. Eum. 5, 4; Liv. 21, 10, 5; 23, 15, 3; 25, 13, 1; 25, 22, 7;

42, 65, 12: vallo et armis,

Tac. A. 1, 42:

curiam militibus,

Val. Max. 3, 8, 5:

legatus populi Romani circumsessus, non modo igni, ferro, manu, copiis oppugnatus, sed aliquā ex parte violatus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 31, § 79:

circumsessus es. A quibus?

id. ib. 2, 1, 32, §

81: populus, qui te circumsedit,

id. ib. 2, 1, 33, § 83; id. Phil. 12, 10, 24; Tac. A. 4, 36:

opem circumsessis ferre,

Liv. 25, 22, 10:

castra circumsessa,

id. 3, 4, 8; 9, 42, 6:

Capitolium,

id. 5, 53, 5.—

Trop.:

non ego sum ille ferreus, qui... non movear horum omnium lacrimis, a quibus me circumsessum videtis,

Cic. Cat. 4, 2, 3; so,

circumsessum muliebribus blanditiis,

Liv. 24, 4, 4:

circumsederi urbem Romanam ab invidiā et odio finitimorum,

id. 6, 6, 11.

circum-sto, stĕti, 1, v. n. and a. (the perf. and pluperf. having the same form with those of circumsisto, and a similar meaning, it is sometimes doubtful to which verb a form belongs), to stand around in a circle, to take a station round; and, with the acc., to stand around a person or thing, to surround, encircle, encompass.

Prop. (very freq. and class.).

Absol.: circumstant cum ardentibus taedis, Enn ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89 (Trag. v. 51 Vahl.):

circumstant lacrimis rorantes ora genasque,

Lucr. 3, 469:

Morini spe praedae adducti circumsteterunt,

Caes. B. G. 4, 37:

circumstant properi aurigae,

Verg. A. 12, 85:

ad circumstantes tendens sua bracchia silvas, Ov M. 3, 441: circumstantis exercitūs gratia,

Curt. 9, 3, 15:

amici,

id. 3, 5, 9.—

With acc.:

aliquem,

Verg. G. 4, 216; Ov. M. 11, 505; Curt. 5, 12, 9:

equites Romani qui circumstant senatum,

Cic. Cat. 1, 8, 21:

sellam,

Liv. 8, 32, 14; Suet. Aug. 35:

solem,

Ov. M. 2, 394:

sacra,

id. ib. 2, 717:

lectum,

Curt. 10, 5, 2.—

Hence, circumstantes, ĭum, m. subst., the by-standers, Quint. 4, 2, 22; 4, 2, 127; Tac. A. 1, 21; 1, 22; Suet. Caes. 84; id. Aug. 93; Curt. 6, 10, 36.—

In partic., to surround in a hostile manner, to beset, besiege:

circumstare tribunal praetoris urbani, obsidere cum gladiis curiam, etc.,

Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 32:

quem tres Curiatii circumsteterant,

Liv. 1, 25, 6:

si ambo consules infesti circumstarent tribunum,

id. 3, 9, 6:

urbem Romanam,

id. 27, 40, 6:

regis tecta,

Verg. A. 7, 585; cf. the foll.—

Trop., to surround, encompass, occupy, take possession of (freq. in post-Aug prose); absol. or with acc.:

cum dies et noctes omnia nos undique fata circumstent,

Cic. Phil. 10, 10, 20:

circumstant te summae auctoritates,

id. Verr. 1, 17, 52:

cum tanti undique terrores circumstarent,

Liv. 6, 2, 4; cf. id. 30, 3, 3:

anceps proelium Romanos circumsteterat, incertos in quem hostem eruptionem facerent,

id. 25, 34, 10:

ancepsque terror circumstabat,

id. 21, 28, 3; 34, 27, 1; Quint. 10, 3, 30:

haec me cura, haec difficultas sola circumstat,

Plin. Pan. 3, 4:

at me tum primum saevus circumstetit horror,

Verg. A. 2, 559:

scio acerba meorum Circumstare odia ( = meos, qui me oderunt),

id. ib. 10, 905:

circumsteterat Civilem et alius metus,

Tac. H. 4, 79:

circumsteterat palatium publica exspectatio,

id. ib. 1, 17:

paupertas et angustiae rerum nascentes eos circumsteterunt,

id. Or. 8.— Subst.: circumstantĭa, ium, n., details, circumstances, in an argument:

illa (argumenta) per se fortia non oportet circumstantibus obscurare,

Quint. 5, 12, 4.