circumcurro

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Menander

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

circum-curro: ĕre, v. n.,
I to run round or about (not ante-Aug.), Vitr. 4, 6: circumcurrens linea, the periphery, Quint. 1, 10, 41.—*
II Trop.: eam artem (rhetoricen) circumcurrentem vocaverunt. quod in omni materiā diceret, universal, Quint. 2, 21, 7.