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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.
2. circumplexus, ūs, m. [circumplector], an encompassing, embracing, or folding around; only in abl. sing., Plin. 8, 11, 11, § 32; 10, 63, 83, § 174: caeli, id. 6, 34, 39, § 212.