near+to

căprārĭus, a, um, adj. [capra], of or pertaining to the goat:

pastus,

Sol. 1, § 97:

mutilago,

a species of tithymalus, App. Herb. 108.— Subst.: căprārĭus, ii, m., a goatherd, Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 10, Col 3, 10, 17.—

Caprāria, ae, f

An island near the south point of the Balearis Major, now Caborra, Plin. 3, 5, 11, § 78; Mart. Cap. 6, § 643.—

One of the Fortunatae Insulae, Mart. Cap. 6, § 702.—

A small island in the Tuscan Sea, near the northern point of Corsica, abounding in wild goats (Gr. Aigilon), now Capraja, Plin. 3, 6, 12, § 81; Mel. 2, 7, 19; Rutil. 1, 439; Mart. Cap. 6, § 644; called also Caprāsia, Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 3.— Hence, Caprārĭensis, e:

plumbum,

Plin. 34, 17, 49, § 164.

căprārĭus, a, um, adj. [capra], of or pertaining to the goat:

pastus,

Sol. 1, § 97:

mutilago,

a species of tithymalus, App. Herb. 108.— Subst.: căprārĭus, ii, m., a goatherd, Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 10, Col 3, 10, 17.—

Caprāria, ae, f

An island near the south point of the Balearis Major, now Caborra, Plin. 3, 5, 11, § 78; Mart. Cap. 6, § 643.—

One of the Fortunatae Insulae, Mart. Cap. 6, § 702.—

A small island in the Tuscan Sea, near the northern point of Corsica, abounding in wild goats (Gr. Aigilon), now Capraja, Plin. 3, 6, 12, § 81; Mel. 2, 7, 19; Rutil. 1, 439; Mart. Cap. 6, § 644; called also Caprāsia, Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 3.— Hence, Caprārĭensis, e:

plumbum,

Plin. 34, 17, 49, § 164.

căprārĭus, a, um, adj. [capra], of or pertaining to the goat:

pastus,

Sol. 1, § 97:

mutilago,

a species of tithymalus, App. Herb. 108.— Subst.: căprārĭus, ii, m., a goatherd, Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 10, Col 3, 10, 17.—

Caprāria, ae, f

An island near the south point of the Balearis Major, now Caborra, Plin. 3, 5, 11, § 78; Mart. Cap. 6, § 643.—

One of the Fortunatae Insulae, Mart. Cap. 6, § 702.—

A small island in the Tuscan Sea, near the northern point of Corsica, abounding in wild goats (Gr. Aigilon), now Capraja, Plin. 3, 6, 12, § 81; Mel. 2, 7, 19; Rutil. 1, 439; Mart. Cap. 6, § 644; called also Caprāsia, Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 3.— Hence, Caprārĭensis, e:

plumbum,

Plin. 34, 17, 49, § 164.

castrum, i, n. [kindred with casa, q. v.].

In sing., any fortified place; a castle, fort, fortress (more rare than castellum):

ei Grunium dederat in Phrygiā castrum, etc.,

Nep. Alcib. 9, 3; Liv. 32. 29, 4; Dig. 27, 1, 17 fin. —

Esp., nom. propr.

Castrum Altum or Album, in Hispania Tarraconensis, Liv. 24, 41, 3.—

Castrum Inui, or simply Castrum, an ancient city of the Rutuli, near Ardea, Verg. A. 6, 775;

called Castrum,

Ov. M. 15, 727; Sil. 8, 359. —

Castrum Novum, a city on the seacoast of Etruria, Liv. 36, 3, 6; Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 51.—

Another Castrum Novum, on the sea-coast of Picenum, now Giulia Nova, [p. 299] Plin. 3, 13, 18, § 110; also called absol. Castrum, Vell. 1, 14, 8.—

Castrum Truentinum, a maritime city of Picenum, on the river Truentus, Cic. Att. 8, 12, B, 1;

also called Truentum,

Plin. 3, 13, 18, § 110.—

Castrum Vergium, a fortress of the Bergistani in Hispania Tarraconensis, now Berga, Liv. 34, 21, 1.—Far more freq.,

In plur.: castra, ōrum, n. ( castra, ae, f.: castra haec vestra est, Att. ap. Non. p. 200, 30; Trag. Rel. p. 238 Rib.).

Lit., several soldiers ' tents situated together; hence, a military camp, an encampment; among the Romans a square (quadrata);

later, after the manner of the Greeks, sometimes circular, or adjusted to its situation,

Veg. Mil. 1, 23. It was surrounded by a trench (fossa) and a wall (vallum), and had four gates: Porta Praetoria, the front, chief gate, on the opp. side from the enemy, from which the legions marched; opp. to this, Porta Decumana (in later times Porta Quaestoria), the back gate;

Porta Principalis Dextra, and Porta Principalis Sinistra, situated on the two sides of the camp,

Liv. 40, 27, 4 sq.; cf. Dict. of Antiq.—

Phrases.

With adj.:

stativa,

occupied for a long time, permanent, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 12, § 29; Caes. B. C. 3, 30; 3, 37; Sall. J. 44, 4; Tac. A. 3, 21:

aestiva,

summer camp, id. ib. 1, 16; Suet. Claud. 1:

hiberna,

Liv. 29, 35, 13 (more freq. absol. aestiva and hiberna, q. v.):

navalia,

an encampment on the shore for protecting the fleet and the troops while landing; sometimes connected with the ships drawn to land, Caes. B. G. 5, 22 Herz.; cf. id. ib. 5, 11; Liv. 29, 35, 13;

called also nautica,

Nep. Alcib. 8, 5; id. Hann. 11, 6 (cf. id. ib. § 4; Liv. 44, 39): lunata, crescent-shaped, Auct. B. Afr. 80.—With numerals:

una,

Tac. A. 4, 2:

bina,

Cic. Phil. 12, 11, 27; Liv. 4, 27, 3:

quina,

Caes. B. C. 3, 9.—

With verb:

locum castris antecapere,

Sall. J. 50, 1; cf.:

capere locum castris,

Liv. 4, 27, 3; 9, 17, 15;

and montes castris capere,

Tac. A. 12, 55: castra metari, Cael. ap. Non. p. 137, 18; Caes. B. C. 3, 13, 3; Hirt. B. G. 8, 15 al.:

facere,

Caes. B. G. 1, 48; Nep. Milt. 5, 2; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 12, § 29 al.:

ponere,

Caes. B. G. 2, 5; 7, 35; Nep. Hann. 5 fin.:

ponere et munire,

Sall. J. 75, 7:

munire,

Caes. B. G. 1, 49; Liv. 44, 39, 1:

communire,

Caes. B. G. 5, 49; Liv. 23, 28, 3:

castra castris conferre,

id. 10, 32, 5; 23, 28, 9:

castris se tenere,

Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 8:

castra movere,

to break up, to decamp, id. ib. 1, 39 fin.; also syn. with to march forth from a camp, id. ib. 1, 15 Herz.; 1, 22; 2, 2; Sall. C. 57, 3; Nep. Dat. 8, 4; id. Eum. 12 fin. et saep.—Hence, also, promovere, Caes. B. G. 1, 48:

movere retro,

Liv. 2, 58, 3:

removere,

id. 9, 24, 4:

proferre,

Caes. B. C. 1, 81:

castris castra inferre,

Enn. Trag. 201 Vahl.—

Castra Praetoriana, Praetoria, Urbana or simply Castra, the barracks of the Prœtorians in the suburbs of Rome, Suet. Tib. 37; id. Claud. 21; Tac. A. 4, 2; Suet. Aug. 29; id. Claud. 36; Dig. 48, 5, 15. —

Castrorum filius, a surname of Caligula, who was brought up in the camp, Suet. Calig. 22; Aur. Vict. Caes. 3.—So, Castrorum mater, an appellation of Faustina, the wife of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, because she accompanied him in an expedition against the Quadi, Capitol. Marc. Aur. 26.—Hence both appell. in later inscriptions as titles of the Roman emperors and empresses. —

Esp. as nom. propr., like castrum.

Castra Corneliana or Cornelia, on the north coast of Africa, near Utica, so called because the elder Scipio Africanus first pitched his camp there, after his landing in Africa, in the second Punic war, Caes. B. C. 2, 24; 2, 25; 2, 37; Mel. 1, 7, 2; Plin. 5, 4, 3, § 24.—

Castra Caecilia, in Lusitania, Plin. 4, 22, 35, § 117.—

Castra Hannibalis, a seaport town in Bruttium, Plin. 3, 10, 15, § 95.—

Castra Pyrrhi, a place in Grecian Illyria, Liv. 32, 13, 2.—

Castra Vetera or Vetera, a place on the Lower Rhine, now Xanthen, Tac. H. 4, 18; 4, 21; 4, 35; id. A. 1, 45.—

Castra Alexandri, a district in Egypt, Curt. 4, 7, 2; Oros. 1, 2.—

Meton.

Since, in military expeditions, a camp was pitched each evening, in the histt. (esp. Livy) for a day ' s march:

secundis castris ( = bidui itinere) pervenit ad Dium,

Liv. 44, 7, 1; so Tac. H. 3, 15; cf.:

alteris castris,

Liv. 38, 13, 2; Curt. 3, 7.—

So tertiis castris,

Liv. 38, 13, 11; 38, 24, 1; Tac. H. 4, 71:

quartis castris,

Liv. 44, 46, 10:

quintis castris,

Caes. B. G. 7, 36; Liv. 28, 19, 4:

septimis castris,

id. 40, 22, 1:

decimis castris,

id. 27, 32 fin.; 28, 33, 1.—

Military service (hence, often opp. forum and toga), Nep. Epam. 5, 4; Vell. 2, 125, 4; Tib. 4, 1, 39:

qui magnum in castris usum habebant,

Caes. B. G. 1, 39.—

Of beehives:

cerea,

Verg. A. 12, 589:

in apium castris,

Pall. 1, 37, 4.—

Of a sheepfold, Col. 6, 23, 3.—

Of political parties, regarded as arrayed in hostility:

si ad interdicti sententiam confugis... in meis castris praesidiisque versaris,

Cic. Caecin. 29, 83.—

Of philosophical sects:

Epicuri castra,

Cic. Fam. 9, 20, 1:

O castra praeclara (Epicuri)!

id. ib. 7, 12, 1; Hor. C. 3, 16, 23; Sen. Ep. 2, 4.

circā, a later access. form for circum; not freq. before the Aug. per., esp. in Livy and Quintilian [acc. to Klotz, circa = circum ea; cf: antea, interea, postea, praeterea, etc.].

( = circum, I. B.) Around, round about, all around, in the environs or neighborhood:

gramen erat circa,

Ov. M. 3, 411:

ripaeque lacusque Responsant circa,

Verg. A. 12, 757:

at circa gravibus pensis affixa puella... remittat opus,

Tib. 1, 3, 87:

circaque quā tumor est,

Cels. 5, 28, 3; 5, 28, 4: fluvius ab tergo; ante circaque velut ripa praeceps oram ejus omnem cingebat, Liv. 27, 18, 5; 28, 33, 2:

circa Padus amnis,

id. 21, 43, 4 Weissenb. ad loc.:

caligo, quam circa umidi effuderant montes,

Curt. 4, 12, 20:

alibi quam Romao circaque,

Plin. 26, 1, 1, § 1; Quint. 12, prooem. § 2; Tac. A. 2, 11.—

Circa esse, to be in the region around, in the neighborhood:

ex montibus qui circa sunt,

Liv. 1, 4, 6:

Tarquinium moribundum cum qui circa erant excepissent,

id. 1, 41, 1:

sed non passi sunt ii, qui circa erant,

Nep. Eum. 10, 4:

eversa est turris quodque circa muri erat,

Liv. 34, 29, 6:

Corinthus et quae circa est regio,

Plin. 24, 9, 42, § 69; Quint. 10, 7, 16. —Also freq. without esse, in connection with a subst.:

multarum circa civitatum irritatis animis,

the towns lying around, Liv. 1, 17, 4; 9, 2, 1; 27, 30, 3; 29, 29, 2;

42, 64, 2: angulus muri erat in planiorem patentioremque quam cetera circa vallem vergens ( = cetera loca quae circa erant),

id. 21, 7, 5:

corpora multa virūm circa,

Verg. A. 7, 535; Plin. 3, 17, 21, § 124.—

Strengthened: undique circa and circa omnis ( = circum), round about, all around: frumento undique circa ex agris convecto. Liv. 42, 56, 8; 23, 19, 8;

nam et circa omnia defecerunt,

id. 9, 23, 10:

cum tam procul Romani unica spes, circa omnia hostium essent,

id. 21, 11, 12; cf. id. 9, 2, 7 Drak.:

exhausto circa omni agro,

id. 31, 38, 1; 24, 3, 3; Val. Fl. 8, 2; Flor. 1, 18, 12 Duker; Quint. 9, 2, 45.—

Prep. with acc.

In space.

( = circum, II. B.) Prop., in the region which surrounds, about, around, on the sides of:

quam (Hennam) circa lacus lucique sunt plurimi atque laetissimi flores omni tempore anni,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48, § 107:

noctu ligna contulerunt circa casam eam, in quā quiescebat,

Nep. Alcib. 10, 4:

circa flumina et lacus frequens nebula est,

Sen. Q. N. 5, 3, 1:

circa equum Alexandri,

Curt. 4, 15, 26:

illi robur et aes triplex Circa pectus erat,

Hor. C. 1, 3, 10; id. S. 2, 6, 34:

quem circa tigres jacent,

Ov. M. 3, 668.—

( = circum, II. C.) Into... around, to... round about, etc. (first in Livy):

Romulus legatos circa vicinas gentes misit,

Liv. 1, 9, 2:

legatis circa duodecim populos missis,

id. 4, 23, 5; 28, 26, 11:

circa domos ire,

id. 26, 13, 1; 25, 9, 2; 39, 18, 2;

29, 22, 3: circa civitates missi legati,

id. 21, 49, 7 Weissenb.; 31, 3, 5; Plin. 7, 37, 37, § 123; Suet. Aug. 49; id. Ner. 28:

litteris circa praefectos dimissis,

Liv. 42, 51, 1:

custodes circa omnes portas missi,

id. 28, 26, 11; 26, 13, 1.—

( = circum, II. D.) With the prevailing idea of neighborhood, vicinity, in the region of, near to, near by:

Capuam et urbis circa Capuam occupare,

Cic. Agr. 1, 7, 22:

circa Liternum posuit castra,

in the neighborhood of, Liv. 23, 35, 6:

tabernae erant circa forum,

Quint. 6, 3, 38:

circa Armeniae montes,

Curt. 5, 1, 13:

Acesinen amnem,

Plin. 12, 5, 11, § 23:

domum auream,

Suet. Ner. 38:

sacrificantem,

id. Claud. 36.—

As a less definite designation of place for in:

Orestis liberi sedem cepere circa Lesbum insulam,

Vell. 1, 2, 5:

circa Mesopotamiam subsistere,

Curt. 4, 9, 1:

quod circa Syriam nascitur,

Plin. 19, 3, 16, § 46;

Quint. prooem. § 20: initia statim primi libri,

id. 1, 5, 44; cf.

finem,

id. 4, 3, 5:

virentes campos,

Hor. C. 2, 5, 5:

cum amor saeviet circa jecur,

id. ib. 1, 25, 15 (cf. Petr. 17, 8:

dolor saevit in praecordiis). So esp. freq. in medic. lang.: circa faciem, nares, aures, labra,

Cels. 5, 28, 2; 5, 2, 8.—So in Livy, with names of places, approaching the more general use of later writers, v. infra, C.:

quadriduum circa rupem consumptum,

Liv. 21, 37, 3:

compositis circa Opuntem rebus,

id. 28, 7, 9:

iisdem diebus circa Chalcidem Thoas... eandem fortunam habuit,

id. 35, 37, 5 Weissenb. ad loc.; cf.:

multos circa unam rem ambitus fecerim,

id. 27, 27, 12 Weissenb. ad loc.—

( = circum, II. E.) In respect to persons who surround one (as attendants, friends, adherents, etc.), around, about:

multa sibi opus esse, multa canibus (sarcast. for indagatoribus) suis, quos circa se haberet,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 48, § 126:

ex iis trecentos juvenes inermes circa se habebat,

Liv. 29, 1, 2:

omnes,

Suet. Aug. 48; id. Calig. 43:

circa regem erat et Phrygum turba,

Curt. 3, 1, 17:

e spadonibus, qui circa reginam erant,

id. 4, 10, 25: omne sed officium circa te semper obibat turba tui sexūs, [p. 334] Mart. 1, 91, 3:

quod omnes circa te similes tui effecisti,

Plin. Pan. 83, 3.—In the language of the imperial court:

circa latus alicujus agere,

to wait on, altend, Dig. 27, 1, 30.—Hence also without a verb: circa aliquem, = hoi peri tina, the attendants, companions of a person:

omnibus vero circa eum gratuito aut levi fenore obstrictis,

Suet. Caes. 27; id. Dom. 9; cf. Liv. 21, 49, 7 Drak.—

(Peculiar to the form circa). In time, designating nearness, proximity to a definite point of time, about (first in Livy; cf.

circiter): postero die circa eandem horam in eundem locum rex copias admovit,

Liv. 42, 57, 10:

circa eum mensem,

Plin. 9, 18, 33, § 69:

lucis ortum,

Curt. 5, 3, 7:

lucem,

Suet. Oth. 11:

mediam noctem,

id. Claud. 2:

vernum aequinoctium,

Col. 5, 6, 19:

Kalendas et Idus Octobr.,

id. 5, 10, 8, 5, 10, 12; 5, 12, 2 al.; Plin. Ep. 1, 7, 4; Pall. 2, 4; 2, 7 al.—With definite numbers:

septimum diem,

Cels. 2, 6:

undecimam horam,

Suet. Caes. 88:

lustra decem,

Hor. C. 4, 1, 6; Scrib. 227.—With general designations of time:

tempora illa,

Quint. 11, 3, 143:

tempora Peloponnesia,

id. 12, 10, 4:

Murenae Cepionisque conjurationis tempus,

Vell. 2, 93, 1:

Magni Pompeii aetatem,

Plin. 33, 12, 55, § 156:

mortem,

id. 11, 37, 73, § 189:

initia imperii,

Suet. Claud. 7.—And in the designation of periods of time by persons who belonged to them (cf. ante):

circa Demetrium Phalerea,

about the time of Demetrius Phalereus, Quint. 2, 4, 41 Spald.:

Tisiam et Coraca,

id. 2, 17, 7:

Philippum,

id. 12, 10, 6:

Ciceronem,

Sen. Contr. 1 praef.:

Attium,

Vell. 1, 17, 1.—

In numerical designations, about, nearly, almost (first in Livy for the usual ad or circiter):

ea fuere oppida circa septuaginta,

Liv. 45, 34, 6:

quingentos Romanorum,

id. 27, 42, 8:

decem milia Persarum,

Curt. 4, 6, 30:

sestertium vicies,

Suet. Claud. 6:

quartum milliarium,

id. Ner. 48:

selibram,

Cels. 4, 19:

singulas heminas,

id. 7, 15.—

(Also peculiar to the form circa, and only in post-Aug. prose; esp. freq. in Quint., occurring more than seventy times.) Trop. for the designation of an object about which, as if it were a centre, any thing moves, is done, etc., around, about, in, in respect to, etc.; depending upon substt., adjj., or verbs.

Upon substantives:

circa eosdem sensus certamen atque aemulatio,

Quint. 10, 5, 5:

circa S litteram deliciae,

id. 1, 11, 6:

verba dissensio,

id. 3, 11, 5:

memoriam suam vanitas atque jactatio,

id. 11, 2, 22:

hoc opiniones,

id. 2, 15, 1;

Plin 8, 16, 19, § 48: quem pugna est,

Quint. 8, 6, 1; 7, 1, 15:

voces inani studio,

id. 8, prooem §

18 et saep: rura sermo,

Plin. 18, 1, 1, § 5:

classicum brevis et expeditus labor,

Plin. Ep 3, 9, 13:

hospitia nullum fastidium,

id. Pan. 20, 3:

publica circa bonas artes socordia,

Tac. A. 11, 15:

principem novo exemplo, i. e. in principe,

Suet. Claud. 14.—

Upon adjectives:

non circa plurium artium species praestantem, sed in omnibus eminentissimum,

Quint. 12, 10, 12:

jus nostrum attentior,

id. 4, 5, 21:

studia mentis erectae,

id. 1, 3, 10:

lites raras ridiculi,

id. 7, 1, 43:

praecepta utiles sententiae,

id. 10, 1, 52; 6, 1, 42 al.:

corporis curam morosior,

Suet. Caes. 45:

victum indifferens,

id. ib. 53:

deos ac religiones neglegentior,

id. Tib. 69:

administrationem imperii vacuus,

id. Dom. 3 al.:

summa scelera distentum,

Tac. A. 16, 8 fin.:

adfectationem Germanicae originis ultro ambitiosi,

id. G. 28:

excessus otiosus,

id. Or. 22:

se animati,

Just. 14, 1, 3 al. —

Upon verbs facetum quoque non tantum circa ridicula opinor consistere, Quint. 6, 3, 19:

hoc disputatum est,

id. 1, 5, 34:

priores erratur,

id. 2, 5, 26:

formas litterarum haerere,

id. 1, 1, 21, cf. id. 5, 10, 114; Suet. Aug. 71. res tenues morari, Quint 1, 1, 35:

consilium elegendi successoris in duas factiones scindebantur,

Tac. H. 1, 13:

Medeam, Thyestem (tragoedias) tempus consumas,

id. Or. 3:

successorem omnia ordinari,

Suet. Claud. 45:

ceremonias, item circa omnium ordinum statum quaedam correxit,

id. ib. 22.

Verr. 2, 4, 48, § 107; Ov. A. A. 2, 577; id..3, 668; cf. circum, II. fin.

Circa, ae, v. Circe.

circā, a later access. form for circum; not freq. before the Aug. per., esp. in Livy and Quintilian [acc. to Klotz, circa = circum ea; cf: antea, interea, postea, praeterea, etc.].

( = circum, I. B.) Around, round about, all around, in the environs or neighborhood:

gramen erat circa,

Ov. M. 3, 411:

ripaeque lacusque Responsant circa,

Verg. A. 12, 757:

at circa gravibus pensis affixa puella... remittat opus,

Tib. 1, 3, 87:

circaque quā tumor est,

Cels. 5, 28, 3; 5, 28, 4: fluvius ab tergo; ante circaque velut ripa praeceps oram ejus omnem cingebat, Liv. 27, 18, 5; 28, 33, 2:

circa Padus amnis,

id. 21, 43, 4 Weissenb. ad loc.:

caligo, quam circa umidi effuderant montes,

Curt. 4, 12, 20:

alibi quam Romao circaque,

Plin. 26, 1, 1, § 1; Quint. 12, prooem. § 2; Tac. A. 2, 11.—

Circa esse, to be in the region around, in the neighborhood:

ex montibus qui circa sunt,

Liv. 1, 4, 6:

Tarquinium moribundum cum qui circa erant excepissent,

id. 1, 41, 1:

sed non passi sunt ii, qui circa erant,

Nep. Eum. 10, 4:

eversa est turris quodque circa muri erat,

Liv. 34, 29, 6:

Corinthus et quae circa est regio,

Plin. 24, 9, 42, § 69; Quint. 10, 7, 16. —Also freq. without esse, in connection with a subst.:

multarum circa civitatum irritatis animis,

the towns lying around, Liv. 1, 17, 4; 9, 2, 1; 27, 30, 3; 29, 29, 2;

42, 64, 2: angulus muri erat in planiorem patentioremque quam cetera circa vallem vergens ( = cetera loca quae circa erant),

id. 21, 7, 5:

corpora multa virūm circa,

Verg. A. 7, 535; Plin. 3, 17, 21, § 124.—

Strengthened: undique circa and circa omnis ( = circum), round about, all around: frumento undique circa ex agris convecto. Liv. 42, 56, 8; 23, 19, 8;

nam et circa omnia defecerunt,

id. 9, 23, 10:

cum tam procul Romani unica spes, circa omnia hostium essent,

id. 21, 11, 12; cf. id. 9, 2, 7 Drak.:

exhausto circa omni agro,

id. 31, 38, 1; 24, 3, 3; Val. Fl. 8, 2; Flor. 1, 18, 12 Duker; Quint. 9, 2, 45.—

Prep. with acc.

In space.

( = circum, II. B.) Prop., in the region which surrounds, about, around, on the sides of:

quam (Hennam) circa lacus lucique sunt plurimi atque laetissimi flores omni tempore anni,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48, § 107:

noctu ligna contulerunt circa casam eam, in quā quiescebat,

Nep. Alcib. 10, 4:

circa flumina et lacus frequens nebula est,

Sen. Q. N. 5, 3, 1:

circa equum Alexandri,

Curt. 4, 15, 26:

illi robur et aes triplex Circa pectus erat,

Hor. C. 1, 3, 10; id. S. 2, 6, 34:

quem circa tigres jacent,

Ov. M. 3, 668.—

( = circum, II. C.) Into... around, to... round about, etc. (first in Livy):

Romulus legatos circa vicinas gentes misit,

Liv. 1, 9, 2:

legatis circa duodecim populos missis,

id. 4, 23, 5; 28, 26, 11:

circa domos ire,

id. 26, 13, 1; 25, 9, 2; 39, 18, 2;

29, 22, 3: circa civitates missi legati,

id. 21, 49, 7 Weissenb.; 31, 3, 5; Plin. 7, 37, 37, § 123; Suet. Aug. 49; id. Ner. 28:

litteris circa praefectos dimissis,

Liv. 42, 51, 1:

custodes circa omnes portas missi,

id. 28, 26, 11; 26, 13, 1.—

( = circum, II. D.) With the prevailing idea of neighborhood, vicinity, in the region of, near to, near by:

Capuam et urbis circa Capuam occupare,

Cic. Agr. 1, 7, 22:

circa Liternum posuit castra,

in the neighborhood of, Liv. 23, 35, 6:

tabernae erant circa forum,

Quint. 6, 3, 38:

circa Armeniae montes,

Curt. 5, 1, 13:

Acesinen amnem,

Plin. 12, 5, 11, § 23:

domum auream,

Suet. Ner. 38:

sacrificantem,

id. Claud. 36.—

As a less definite designation of place for in:

Orestis liberi sedem cepere circa Lesbum insulam,

Vell. 1, 2, 5:

circa Mesopotamiam subsistere,

Curt. 4, 9, 1:

quod circa Syriam nascitur,

Plin. 19, 3, 16, § 46;

Quint. prooem. § 20: initia statim primi libri,

id. 1, 5, 44; cf.

finem,

id. 4, 3, 5:

virentes campos,

Hor. C. 2, 5, 5:

cum amor saeviet circa jecur,

id. ib. 1, 25, 15 (cf. Petr. 17, 8:

dolor saevit in praecordiis). So esp. freq. in medic. lang.: circa faciem, nares, aures, labra,

Cels. 5, 28, 2; 5, 2, 8.—So in Livy, with names of places, approaching the more general use of later writers, v. infra, C.:

quadriduum circa rupem consumptum,

Liv. 21, 37, 3:

compositis circa Opuntem rebus,

id. 28, 7, 9:

iisdem diebus circa Chalcidem Thoas... eandem fortunam habuit,

id. 35, 37, 5 Weissenb. ad loc.; cf.:

multos circa unam rem ambitus fecerim,

id. 27, 27, 12 Weissenb. ad loc.—

( = circum, II. E.) In respect to persons who surround one (as attendants, friends, adherents, etc.), around, about:

multa sibi opus esse, multa canibus (sarcast. for indagatoribus) suis, quos circa se haberet,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 48, § 126:

ex iis trecentos juvenes inermes circa se habebat,

Liv. 29, 1, 2:

omnes,

Suet. Aug. 48; id. Calig. 43:

circa regem erat et Phrygum turba,

Curt. 3, 1, 17:

e spadonibus, qui circa reginam erant,

id. 4, 10, 25: omne sed officium circa te semper obibat turba tui sexūs, [p. 334] Mart. 1, 91, 3:

quod omnes circa te similes tui effecisti,

Plin. Pan. 83, 3.—In the language of the imperial court:

circa latus alicujus agere,

to wait on, altend, Dig. 27, 1, 30.—Hence also without a verb: circa aliquem, = hoi peri tina, the attendants, companions of a person:

omnibus vero circa eum gratuito aut levi fenore obstrictis,

Suet. Caes. 27; id. Dom. 9; cf. Liv. 21, 49, 7 Drak.—

(Peculiar to the form circa). In time, designating nearness, proximity to a definite point of time, about (first in Livy; cf.

circiter): postero die circa eandem horam in eundem locum rex copias admovit,

Liv. 42, 57, 10:

circa eum mensem,

Plin. 9, 18, 33, § 69:

lucis ortum,

Curt. 5, 3, 7:

lucem,

Suet. Oth. 11:

mediam noctem,

id. Claud. 2:

vernum aequinoctium,

Col. 5, 6, 19:

Kalendas et Idus Octobr.,

id. 5, 10, 8, 5, 10, 12; 5, 12, 2 al.; Plin. Ep. 1, 7, 4; Pall. 2, 4; 2, 7 al.—With definite numbers:

septimum diem,

Cels. 2, 6:

undecimam horam,

Suet. Caes. 88:

lustra decem,

Hor. C. 4, 1, 6; Scrib. 227.—With general designations of time:

tempora illa,

Quint. 11, 3, 143:

tempora Peloponnesia,

id. 12, 10, 4:

Murenae Cepionisque conjurationis tempus,

Vell. 2, 93, 1:

Magni Pompeii aetatem,

Plin. 33, 12, 55, § 156:

mortem,

id. 11, 37, 73, § 189:

initia imperii,

Suet. Claud. 7.—And in the designation of periods of time by persons who belonged to them (cf. ante):

circa Demetrium Phalerea,

about the time of Demetrius Phalereus, Quint. 2, 4, 41 Spald.:

Tisiam et Coraca,

id. 2, 17, 7:

Philippum,

id. 12, 10, 6:

Ciceronem,

Sen. Contr. 1 praef.:

Attium,

Vell. 1, 17, 1.—

In numerical designations, about, nearly, almost (first in Livy for the usual ad or circiter):

ea fuere oppida circa septuaginta,

Liv. 45, 34, 6:

quingentos Romanorum,

id. 27, 42, 8:

decem milia Persarum,

Curt. 4, 6, 30:

sestertium vicies,

Suet. Claud. 6:

quartum milliarium,

id. Ner. 48:

selibram,

Cels. 4, 19:

singulas heminas,

id. 7, 15.—

(Also peculiar to the form circa, and only in post-Aug. prose; esp. freq. in Quint., occurring more than seventy times.) Trop. for the designation of an object about which, as if it were a centre, any thing moves, is done, etc., around, about, in, in respect to, etc.; depending upon substt., adjj., or verbs.

Upon substantives:

circa eosdem sensus certamen atque aemulatio,

Quint. 10, 5, 5:

circa S litteram deliciae,

id. 1, 11, 6:

verba dissensio,

id. 3, 11, 5:

memoriam suam vanitas atque jactatio,

id. 11, 2, 22:

hoc opiniones,

id. 2, 15, 1;

Plin 8, 16, 19, § 48: quem pugna est,

Quint. 8, 6, 1; 7, 1, 15:

voces inani studio,

id. 8, prooem §

18 et saep: rura sermo,

Plin. 18, 1, 1, § 5:

classicum brevis et expeditus labor,

Plin. Ep 3, 9, 13:

hospitia nullum fastidium,

id. Pan. 20, 3:

publica circa bonas artes socordia,

Tac. A. 11, 15:

principem novo exemplo, i. e. in principe,

Suet. Claud. 14.—

Upon adjectives:

non circa plurium artium species praestantem, sed in omnibus eminentissimum,

Quint. 12, 10, 12:

jus nostrum attentior,

id. 4, 5, 21:

studia mentis erectae,

id. 1, 3, 10:

lites raras ridiculi,

id. 7, 1, 43:

praecepta utiles sententiae,

id. 10, 1, 52; 6, 1, 42 al.:

corporis curam morosior,

Suet. Caes. 45:

victum indifferens,

id. ib. 53:

deos ac religiones neglegentior,

id. Tib. 69:

administrationem imperii vacuus,

id. Dom. 3 al.:

summa scelera distentum,

Tac. A. 16, 8 fin.:

adfectationem Germanicae originis ultro ambitiosi,

id. G. 28:

excessus otiosus,

id. Or. 22:

se animati,

Just. 14, 1, 3 al. —

Upon verbs facetum quoque non tantum circa ridicula opinor consistere, Quint. 6, 3, 19:

hoc disputatum est,

id. 1, 5, 34:

priores erratur,

id. 2, 5, 26:

formas litterarum haerere,

id. 1, 1, 21, cf. id. 5, 10, 114; Suet. Aug. 71. res tenues morari, Quint 1, 1, 35:

consilium elegendi successoris in duas factiones scindebantur,

Tac. H. 1, 13:

Medeam, Thyestem (tragoedias) tempus consumas,

id. Or. 3:

successorem omnia ordinari,

Suet. Claud. 45:

ceremonias, item circa omnium ordinum statum quaedam correxit,

id. ib. 22.

Verr. 2, 4, 48, § 107; Ov. A. A. 2, 577; id..3, 668; cf. circum, II. fin.

Circa, ae, v. Circe.

circum [properly acc. from circus = kirkos], adv. and prep., designates either an entire encompassing or surrounding of an object, or a proximity only partially em. bracing or comprehending it, around, about, all around, peri, amphi

Around, round about, all around, etc., perix:

furcas circum offigito,

Cato, R. R. 48, 2; Varr. R. R. 3, 14, 1;

Verg A 3, 230: quia (locus) vastis circum saltibus claudebatur,

Tac. A. 4, 25:

molli circum est ansas amplexus acantho,

Verg. E. 3, 45:

age tu interim Da cito ab Delphio Cantharum circum,

Plaut. Most. 1, 4, 33:

quae circum essent opera tueri,

Caes. B. C 2, 10:

interea Rutuli portis circum omnibus instant,

Verg. A. 10, 118 (i. e. circumcirca fusi:

nam modo circum adverbium loci est, Serv.): omnem, quae nuno.umida circum Caligat, nu. bem eripiam,

id. ib. 2, 605; Tib. 1, 3, 77; 1, 5, 11. sed circum tutae sub moenibus urbis aquantur, round about under the walls, Verg. G 4, 193. faciundum haras quadratas circum binos pedes, all around, i. e. on every side, two feet, Varr. R. R. 3, 10, 3 Schneid.—

Strengthened with undique (in later Latin also sometimes written as one word, circumundique), from everywhere around, around on all sides:

circum Undique convenere,

Verg. A. 4, 416; Lucr. 3, 404:

clausis circum undique portis,

Stat. S. 2, 5, 13; 5, 1, 155; id. Th. 2, 228:

oppositu circumundique aliarum aedium,

Gell. 4, 5, 3; 13, 24, 1; 14, 2, 9;

so with totus and omnis,

Varr. R. R. 3, 14, 1; Verg. A. 10, 118.—

Of an incomplete circuit, esp. of the part that meets the view, lies on the hither side, etc. (v. under II.):

hostilibus circum litoribus,

Tac. A. 2, 24:

aestas... aperto circum pelago peramoena,

id. ib. 4, 67:

gentibus innumeris circum infraque relictis,

Ov. M. 4, 668; Stat. Achill. 1, 56:

corpus servans circumque supraque vertitur,

id. Th. 9, 114; Albin. Carm. ap. Maecen. 46.

Prep. with acc.

Around, abow (implying a complete circuit):

armillas quattuor facito, quas circum orbem indas,

Cato, R. R. 21, 4:

terra circum axem se summā celeritate convertit,

Cic. Ac. 2, 39, 123; Quint. 2, 17, 19 Zumpt N. cr.:

ligato circum collum sudario,

Suet. Ner. 51:

terque novas circum felix eat hostia fruges,

Verg. G. 1, 345:

at genitor circum caput omne micantes Deposuit radios,

Ov. M. 2, 40.—

As in adv. B., of an incomplete circuit, about, upon, around, near:

capillus sparsus, promissus, circum caput Rejectus neglegenter,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 49:

flexo circum cava tempora cornu,

Ov. M. 7, 313; 10, 116; 11, 159:

tum Salii ad cantus incensa altaria circum adsunt,

Verg. A. 8, 285:

varios hic flumina circum Fundit humus flores,

on the borders of the rivulets, id. E. 9, 40:

urgeris turbā circum te stante,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 135; cf. id. C. 2, 16, 33:

circum renidentes Lares,

id. Epod. 2, 66; Verg. G. 2, 484; cf. Luc. 2, 557:

illi indignantes Circum claustra fremunt,

Verg. A. 1, 56:

oras et litora circum errantem,

id. ib. 3, 75.—

Circum very freq. expresses, not a relative motion around a given central point, but an absol. circular movement, in which several objects named form separate points of a periphery, in, into, among... around, to... around, etc.:

te adloquor, Quae circum vicinos vages,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 14: ego Arpini volo esse pridie Cal., deinde circum villulas nostras errare, not round about our villas, but in our villas around, Cic. Att. 8, 9, 3; cf Hor. S. 1, 6, 58:

tum Naevius pueros circum amicos dimittit,

to friends around, Cic. Quint. 6, 25; Suet. Ner. 47:

cum praetorem circum omnia fora sectaretur,

Cic. Verr 2, 2, 70, § 169:

Apronius ducebat eos circum civitates,

id. ib. 2, 3, 26, §

65: ille circum hospites cursabat,

id. ib. 2, 4, 19, §

41: lenonem quondam Lentuli concursare circum tabernas,

id. Cat. 4, 8, 17:

dimissis circum municipia litteris,

Caes. B. C. 3, 22:

circum oram maritimam misit, ut, etc.,

Liv. 29, 24, 9:

legatio sub idem tempus in Asiam et circum insulas missa,

id. 42, 45, 1; Suet. Aug. 64; id. Caes. 41; id. Calig. 28; 41; Hor. S. 2, 3, 281; id. Ep 1, 1, 49: et te circum omnes alias irata puellas Differet, to or among all the other maidens around, Prop. 1, 4, 21—

With the prevailing idea of neighborhood, vicinity, in the environs of, in the vicinity of, at, near:

circum haec loca commorabor,

Cic. Att. 3, 17, 2; Pompei ib. 8, 12, C, 1 exercitu in foro et in omnibus templis, quae circum forum sunt, conlocato, Cic. Opt. Gen. 4, 10:

urbes, quae circum Capuam sunt,

id. Agr. 1, 7, 20:

cum tot essent circum hastam illam,

id. Phil. 2, 26, 64 Wernsd. N. cr.:

non succurrit tibi, quamdiu circum Bactra haereas?

Curt. 7, 8, 21, Tac. A. 4, 74. —

Of persons who surround one (as attendants, friends, etc.); in Gr.peri or amphi tina:

paucae, quae circum illam essent,

Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 33; Cic. Att. 9, 9, 4:

omnium flagitiorum atque facinorum circum se tamquam stipatorum catervas habebat,

Sall. C. 14, 1; cf. id. ib. 26, 4:

Hectora circum,

Verg. A. 6, 166.—Circum pedes for ad pedes, of servants in attendance, is rare, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 36, § 92;

v ad, I. D. 3. b.—

,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 31 Müll., Lucr 1, 937; 4, 220; 6, 427; Cic. N. D. 2, 41, 105; Verg. E. 8, 12; 8, 74; 9, 40; id. A. 1, 32; 2, 515; 2, 564; 3, 75: 6, 166; 6, 329; 9, 440; Tib. 1, 1, 23; 1, 5, 51; Stat. Th. 3, 395.—

In composition the m remains unchanged before consonants; before vowels it was, acc. to Prisc. p. 567 P., and Cassiod. p. 2294 ib., written in like manner, but (except before j and v) not pronounced. Yet in the best MSS. we find the orthography circuitio, circuitus, and even circueo together with circumeo; cf. Neue, Formenl. 2, p. 736 sq. —Signif.,

Acc. to II. A.: circumcido, circumcludo, circumculco, circumfluo, circumfodio, circumfundo, etc.—

Acc. to II. B.: circumcolo, circumflecto, circumjaceo, circumicio.—

Acc. to II. C.: circumcellio, circumcurso, circumduco, circumfero, circumforaneus.—In many compounds, circum has sometimes one and sometimes another signif., as in circumdo, circumeo, circumsisto, etc.; v. h. vv.—

336] object; e. g. circumcursare circum aliquid and similar phrases are not found.

cĭter, tra, trum ( comp. citerior; sup. citimus; most freq. in comp.; in posit. only Cato ap. Prisc. pp. 589 and 999 P.; and Afran. ap. Prisc. p. 607 ib.), adj. [cis].

On this side:

citer agnus (ager) alligatus ad sacra erit, Cato ap. Prisc. pp. 599 and 989 P.: alter ulteriorem Galliam decernit cum Syriā, alter citeriorem,

Cic. Prov. Cons. 15, 36:

citerior provincia (i. e. Gallia Cisalpina),

Caes. B. G. 1, 10:

in Galliā citeriore,

id. ib. 1, 24; Hirt. B. G. 8, 23; Suet. Caes. 56:

citerior Hispania,

Varr. R. R. 1, 57, 2; Cic. Att. 12, 37, 4; Nep. Cat. 2, 1; Plin. 3, 1, 2, § 6:

Arabia,

Plin. 6, 34, 39, § 213:

Oceanus,

Flor. 4, 12, 46:

ripa,

Vell. 2, 107, 1.—

As that which is on this side is nearer to us than its opposite, lying near, near, close to.

In space:

(stella) ultima a caelo, citima terris,

Cic. Rep. 6, 16, 16; id. Univ. 7 fin.:

citima Persidis (sc. loca),

Plin. 6, 34, 39, § 213. —

Trop.:

deduc orationem tuam de caelo ad haec citeriora,

Cic. Rep. 1, 21, 34:

quantā animi tranquillitate humana et citeriora considerat,

id. Tusc. 5, 25, 71:

ut ad haec citeriora veniam et notiora nobis,

id. Leg. 3, 2, 4:

nam citeriora nondum audiebamus,

id. Fam. 2, 12, 1; Val. Max. 3, 8, 1; 9, 12, 6:

citerioris vitae minister,

private, domestic, Amm. 14, 1, 7.—

In time (post-Aug.), earlier, sooner:

Africano consulatus citerior legitimo tempore datus est,

Val. Max. 8, 15, 1; 6, 3, 11:

in antiquius citeriusve,

Vell. 1, 17, 2:

citeriore die (opp. longiore),

Dig. 23, 4, 15.—

In measure or degree, small, little:

citerior tamen est poena quam scelus,

Quint. Decl. 299; Val. Max. 8, 7, ext. 10.— Advv.: comp. cĭtĕrĭus, less:

citerius debito resistere,

Sen. Ira, 1, 16, 11; sup. cĭtĭmē, least, acc. to Prisc. p. 1016 P.—

Hence,

cī̆trā, adv. and prep. with acc., on this side, on the hither or nearer side (opp. to ultra; more freq. than cis, q. v.).

Prop.

Adv.:

(dextera) nec citra mota nec ultra,

neither this way nor that, Ov. M. 5, 186; cf.:

ultra citraque pervolare,

Plin. 10, 23, 31, § 61:

citra est Oglasa,

id. 3, 6, 12, § 80; 6, 11, 12, § 30:

citra fuere margines,

id. 2, 17, 14, § 73.—

With acc.:

Germani qui essent citra Rhenum,

Caes. B. G. 6, 32:

is locus est citra Leucadem stadia CXX.,

Cic. Fam. 16, 2; so,

citra Veliam,

id. Att. 16, 7, 5:

citra mare,

Hor. S. 2, 8, 47:

mare citra,

id. ib. 1, 10, 31:

citra flumen intercepti,

Liv. 21, 48, 6:

citra Tauri juga,

id. 38, 48, 1 al. —

With verbs of motion: ut exercitum citra flumen Rubiconem educeret,

Cic. Phil. 6, 3, 5:

ut omnes citra flumen eliceret,

Caes. B. G. 6, 8; Liv. 21, 54, 4; Hor. S. 1, 1, 106.—

(Acc. to citer, II.) Of that which takes [p. 345] place, or is within a fixed boundary, and yet does not reach that boundary, within, beneath, short of, less than.

Adv.:

non erit necesse id usque a capite arcessere: saepe etiam citra licet,

not so far, Cic. Top. 9, 39:

paucis citra milibus lignatores ei occurrunt,

Liv. 10, 25, 4:

citra quam proxime fuerint (defectus lunae),

Plin. 2, 13, 10, § 86:

citra exsultare,

id. 17, 22, 35, § 180: tela citra cadebant (i. e. did not reach the Romans), Tac. H. 3, 23.—

With acc.:

nec a postremā syllabā citra tertiam,

before the third syllable, Cic. Or. 18, 58 (cf. Quint. 1, 5, 30: acuta intra numerum trium syllabarum continetur); id. 8, 6, 76:

cur Veneris stella numquam longius XLVI. portibus ab sole... abscedant, saepe citra eas ad solem reciprocent,

Plin. 2, 17, 14, § 72; 2, 17, 15, § 77.—

Trop.

Adv. of measure:

neve domi praesume dapes et desine citra Quam capias paulo,

Ov. A. A. 3, 757; cf.:

culta citra quam debuit illa,

id. P. 1, 7, 55.—

With acc.: pronepos ego regis aquarum;

Nec virtus citra genus est,

is not behind my family, Ov. M. 10, 607:

glans cum citra satietatem data est,

not to satiety, Col. 7, 6, 5; cf. id. 9, 13, 2; so,

fatigationem,

Cels. 1, 2; cf. Plin. 19, 8, 54, § 171:

scelus,

Ov. Tr. 5, 8, 23:

citra necem tua constitit ira,

id. ib. 2, 127:

usus citra intellectum acrimoniae,

Plin. 19, 8, 54, § 171. —

In time (with acc. rare;

perh. not anteAug.): citra Kalendas Octobris,

Col. 2, 8, 3; cf. Gell. 12, 13:

Trojana tempora,

Ov. M. 8, 365:

juventam,

id. ib. 10, 84:

temporis finem,

Dig. 49, 16, 15.—

Since the Aug. per. (most freq. in Quint. and Pliny the elder; in the former more than twenty times), in gen. of that which does not belong to, is without, or beyond something, without, aside from, apart from, except, without regard to, setting aside (for the class. sine, praeter; hence the Gloss.: aneu sine, absque, praeter, citra, Gloss. Cyr.; citra dicha, chôris, ektos, Gloss. Phil.); with acc.:

citra hoc experimentum multa sunt, quae, etc.,

Col. 2, 2, 20:

plus usus sine doctrinā, quam citra usum doctrina valet,

Quint. 12, 6, 4:

Phidias in ebore longe citra aemulum,

id. 12, 10, 9:

vir bonus citra virtutem intellegi non potest,

id. 12, 2, 1; so,

accusationem,

id. 7, 2, 26; 3, 8, 21; 7, 10, 3:

tranare aquas citra docentem natura ipsa sciunt,

id. 2, 16, 13:

citra invidiam,

Plin. 7, 29, 30, § 108:

citra ullum aliud incommodum,

id. 2, 51, 52, § 137:

citra dolorem,

id. 12, 17, 40, § 79; Plin. Ep. 2, 1, 4:

morsum,

Plin. 8, 38, 57, § 136:

vulnus,

id. 20, 21, 84, § 225 al.:

citra fidem,

Tac. Agr. 1:

citra speciem aut delectationem,

id. G. 16:

citra Senatūs populique auctoritatem,

Suet. Caes. 28:

commoda emeritorum,

id. Aug. 24:

spem omnium fortuna cessit,

Flor. 3, 1, 2:

etiam citra spectaculorum dies,

i.e. even out of the time of the established spectacles, Suet. Aug. 43:

citra magnitudinem prope Ponto similis,

excepting its size, Mel. 1, 19, 17; Tac. Agr. 10; Quint. 2, 4, 22; so id. 7, 2, 13; Dig. 3, 6, 9: lana tincta fuco citra purpuras placet, Ov. Fragm. ap. Quint. 12, 10, 75.—Citra sometimes follows its case, Hor. S. 1, 1, 107; 1, 10, 31.—

cī̆trō, adv. (orig. dat. sing.), always in the connection and position ultro citroque, ultro et citro, ultro ac citro, or without copula ultro citro (not ultroque citroque), hither and thither, this way and that, here and there, to and fro, from both sides, backwards and forwards, reciprocally; Fr. par ci par là, ça et là (in good prose):

ultro ac citro commeare,

Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 16:

sursum deorsum, ultro citro commeantibus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 84: ultro citroque commeare, Auct. B. Afr. 20; Plin. 2, 38, 38, § 104; * Suet. Calig. 19; Lucr. 4, 32:

qui ultro citroque navigarent,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 66, § 170:

cursare ultro et citro,

id. Rosc. Am. 22, 60 (in Prisc. p. 1011 P., perh. only from memory written ultro citroque):

bis ultro citroque transcurrerunt,

Liv. 40, 40, 7 al.:

cum saepe ultro citroque legati inter eos mitterentur,

Caes. B. G. 1, 42; id. B. C. 1, 20; Liv. 5, 8, 6:

multis verbis ultro citroque habitis,

Cic. Rep. 6, 9, 9; cf. Liv. 9, 45, 2; 7, 9, 2:

beneficiis ultro citro datis acceptisque,

Cic. Off. 1, 17, 56:

ut obsides ultro citroque darentur,

Liv. 44, 23, 2:

datā ultro citroque fide,

id. 29, 23, 5:

inplicati ultro et citro vel usu diuturno vel etiam officiis,

Cic. Lael. 22, 85 Klotz N. cr.: alternatis ultro citro aestibus, Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 29:

ultro citroque versus,

Amm. 30, 3, 5.

Clărŏs, i, f., = Klaros, a small town in Ionia, near Colophon, celebrated for a temple and an oracle of Apollo, now the village Zilleh, Ov M. 1, 516; cf. Tac. A. 2, 54.— Hence,

Clărĭus, a, um, adj., of or pertaining to Claros, Clarian.

As an epithet of Apollo:

Clarii Apollinis fanum, specus, oraculum, simulacrum,

Mel. 1, 17, 2; Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 232; Tac. A. 2, 54; 12, 22:

deus,

Ov. A. A. 2, 80; id. M. 11, 413; id. F. 1, 20.— Subst.: Clărĭus, ii, m., Apollo, Verg. A. 3, 360 Serv.; Stat. Th. 8, 199.—

As an epithet of the poet Antimachus. of Colophon (prob. since claros was near Colophon, and, as devoted to Apollo, it appeared a suitable appel. of a poet), Ov. Tr. 1, 6, 1 Jahn (but in Cic. Brut. 51, 191, the best read. is: Antimachum, clarum poëtam).

Dictynna, ae, f., Diktunna.

The nymph Britomartis, so called because, when pursued by Minos, she sprang into a net (diktuon; cf.

Callim. Hymn. Dian. 189 sq.),

Verg. Cir. 304.—

An appellation of Diana, Ov. M. 2, 441; 5, 619; id. F. 6, 755; Tib. 1, 4, 25; Stat. Th. 9, 632.—Hence,

Dictynnaeum ( - nēum), i, n., a place sacred to the goddess Dictynna, near Sparta, Liv. 34, 38, 5.—

Dictynnaeus mons (to Diktunnaion), a promontory on the N. W. coast of Crete, where a temple of Diana stood, now Cape Sparta, Plin. 4, 12, 20, § 60; Sol. 11, 6.—

A city near the temple of Diana in Crete, Mel. 2, 7, 12.

Dictynna, ae, f., Diktunna.

The nymph Britomartis, so called because, when pursued by Minos, she sprang into a net (diktuon; cf.

Callim. Hymn. Dian. 189 sq.),

Verg. Cir. 304.—

An appellation of Diana, Ov. M. 2, 441; 5, 619; id. F. 6, 755; Tib. 1, 4, 25; Stat. Th. 9, 632.—Hence,

Dictynnaeum ( - nēum), i, n., a place sacred to the goddess Dictynna, near Sparta, Liv. 34, 38, 5.—

Dictynnaeus mons (to Diktunnaion), a promontory on the N. W. coast of Crete, where a temple of Diana stood, now Cape Sparta, Plin. 4, 12, 20, § 60; Sol. 11, 6.—

A city near the temple of Diana in Crete, Mel. 2, 7, 12.

Dictynna, ae, f., Diktunna.

The nymph Britomartis, so called because, when pursued by Minos, she sprang into a net (diktuon; cf.

Callim. Hymn. Dian. 189 sq.),

Verg. Cir. 304.—

An appellation of Diana, Ov. M. 2, 441; 5, 619; id. F. 6, 755; Tib. 1, 4, 25; Stat. Th. 9, 632.—Hence,

Dictynnaeum ( - nēum), i, n., a place sacred to the goddess Dictynna, near Sparta, Liv. 34, 38, 5.—

Dictynnaeus mons (to Diktunnaion), a promontory on the N. W. coast of Crete, where a temple of Diana stood, now Cape Sparta, Plin. 4, 12, 20, § 60; Sol. 11, 6.—

A city near the temple of Diana in Crete, Mel. 2, 7, 12.

Dictynna, ae, f., Diktunna.

The nymph Britomartis, so called because, when pursued by Minos, she sprang into a net (diktuon; cf.

Callim. Hymn. Dian. 189 sq.),

Verg. Cir. 304.—

An appellation of Diana, Ov. M. 2, 441; 5, 619; id. F. 6, 755; Tib. 1, 4, 25; Stat. Th. 9, 632.—Hence,

Dictynnaeum ( - nēum), i, n., a place sacred to the goddess Dictynna, near Sparta, Liv. 34, 38, 5.—

Dictynnaeus mons (to Diktunnaion), a promontory on the N. W. coast of Crete, where a temple of Diana stood, now Cape Sparta, Plin. 4, 12, 20, § 60; Sol. 11, 6.—

A city near the temple of Diana in Crete, Mel. 2, 7, 12.