circum -fŏrānĕus, a, um, adj. [forum].
- * I. Of or around the forum or market-place: aes, debts due in the forum (because the bankers’ shops were at the forum), Cic. Att. 2, 1, 11.
More freq.,
- II. Strolling about from market to market, that attends markets: pharmacopola, Cic. Clu. 14, 40: lanista, * Suet. Vit. 12: medicabulum, App. M. 9, p. 218, 41.
- B. In gen., that is carried about, ambulatory, movable: domus, App. M. 4, p. 148, 29: hostiae, which are carried about for expiation (cf. circumfero, II. C.), App. M. 3, p. 130, 5.