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circumventum

circumventum is a Latin form of circumvenio, meaning “surround, encircle; cheat, entrap”. It is the perfect passive participle accusative singular masculine.

Found 30 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio 9: … ndemnaret. ostendam, iudices, primum, quoniam caput illius atrocitatis atque invidiae fuit innocentem pecunia circumventum, neminem umquam maioribus criminibus gravioribus testibus esse in iudicium vocatum; deinde ea de eo praeiudic …

Livy, Ab urbe condita 22.4.7: Romanus clamore prius undique orto quam satis cerneret se circumuentum esse sensit, et ante in frontem lateraque pugnari coeptum est quam satis instrueretur acies aut expediri arma stringique gladii possent.

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.