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circumplecto, ĕre (act. collat. form of circumplector; cf. Neue, Formenl. 2, p. 312), to embrace, clasp around: meum collum circumplecte, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 106: circumplectito foramina laminis, Cato, R. R. 21, 2.
Part. pass. circumplexus: turris igni, Gell. 15, 1, 6: venter, App. Dogm. Plat. 1, p. 171 sq.
circum-plector, plexus, 3,
- I. v. dep. a., to clasp around, embrace, to surround, encompass (class. in prose and poetry): conjunctiones motu undique, Cic. Univ. 7 fin.: domini patrimonium quasi thesaurum draco, id. Phil. 13, 5, 12: arborem, Plin. 19, 4, 22, § 63; 13, 10, 19, § 65: pharetram auro, Verg. A. 5, 312: collem opere, to circumvallate, Caes. B. G. 7, 83: oppidum tragulis, Auct. B. Hisp. 32; Suet. Tib. 6: statuam pennis, of the eagle, id. Dom. 6; Stat. S. 1, 5, 44.
- II. Trop.: animum, imago quaedam … circumplectitur, Gell. 10, 3, 8.