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circumire

circumire is a Latin form of circumeo, meaning “go around, surround; visit in turn”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 54 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.87.2: Restituto proelio ac repulsis hostibus eo quo Labienum miserat contendit; cohortes quattuor ex proximo castello deducit, equitum partem sequi, partem circumire exteriores munitiones et ab tergo hostes adoriri iubet.

Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni 4.15.15: Vallo similis acies erat: iunxerant hastas et ab utroque latere temere incurrentium ilia suffodiebant. Circumire deinde et currus et propugnatores praecipitare coeperunt.

All forms of circumeo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.