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|lshtext=<b>circum-ĭcĭo</b>: or [[circum]]-jĭcĭo ([[access]]. form [[circum]]-jăcĭo, Liv 33, 18, 17, [[where]] [[more]] [[recent]] editt. [[read]] circumagere), jēci, jectum, 3, v. a.<br /><b>I</b> To [[cast]], [[throw]], or [[place]] [[around]] (in [[good]] [[class]]. [[prose]])' amic tum, Varr. L. L. 5, § 132: [[vallum]], Liv 35, 4, 6: fossam [[quoque]] et [[alia]] munimenta verticibus iis... circumjecere, id. 38, 19, 5: [[pars]] urbis, cui brevior [[orbis]] munitionis circumjectus erat, id. 36, 9, 12 [[miles]] moenibus Cremonensium [[castra]] sua, castris [[vallum]] circumjecerat, Tac H. 3, 26 vehicula, id. A. 14, 37' multitudinem hominum totis moenibus, Caes. B. G. 2, 6 equites levisque armaturae [[quod]] erat cornibus circumjectum, Liv. 33, 18, 11 custodes, Tac. A. 6, 19 al.—In [[pass]]. [[with]] acc. (depending on [[circum]]): [[quod]] [[anguis]] vectem circumjectus fuisset, had [[wound]] itself [[around]], Cic. Div. 2, 28, 62.—Hence, circumjec-tus, a, um, of localities, [[lying]] [[around]], [[surrounding]]' aedificia muris, Liv. 9, 28, 5: silvae itineri, id. 35, 30, 6: [[moenia]] regiae, Tac. H. 5, 11 fin.—Absol.: [[lucus]], Liv 31, 24, 17: silvae, Suet. Aug. 100: campi, Curt. 3, 1, 3: nemora, id. 3, 10, 2 oppida, Tac. A. 4, 27: nationes, id. ib. 6, 31; 12, 31: civitates, id. H. 3, 43 fin.. tecta, id A 15, 37.— Subst.' circumjecta, ōrum, n. (sc. loca), the neighborhood: vagi circumjecta populabantur, Tac. A. 1, 21.—Trop., of [[discourse]] (cf. circumjaceo, II.): circumjectae orationis [[copia]], [[standing]] by, * Quint. 4, 2, 117.—<br /><b>II</b> Aliquid aliquā re, to [[encompass]] or environ, to [[surround]]: extremitatem caeli [[rotundo]] ambitu, Cic. Univ. 8, 23: [[planities]] saltibus circumjecta, surrounded, Tac. A. 2, 11.

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