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circumventi

circumventi is a Latin form of circumvenio, meaning “surround, encircle; cheat, entrap”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative plural masculine.

Found 40 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.26.5: Hostes undique circumventi desperatis omnibus rebus se per munitiones deicere et fuga salutem petere contenderunt.

Livy, Ab urbe condita 22.15.10: itaque ipse et delecti equitum circumuenti occiduntur; ceteri effuso rursus cursu Cales primum, inde prope inuiis callibus ad dictatorem perfugerunt.

All forms of circumvenio (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.