circum-vĕhor, vectus, 3, v. dep.,
- I. 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.
- II. 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.