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Forms: circuitio (data provider: perseus), circuitione (data provider: perseus), circuitionem (data provider: donatus-sup), circuitiones (data provider: donatus-sup), circuitionibus (data provider: donatus-sup), circuitionis (data provider: donatus-sup), circuitionum (data provider: donatus-sup), circumitio (data provider: perseus), circumitione (data provider: perseus), circumitionem (data provider: perseus), circumitiones (data provider: perseus), circumitionibus (data provider: perseus), circumitionis (data provider: perseus)
Dictionary- Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
- Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
- circŭĭtĭo (circŭmĭtĭo, Cic. Div. 2, 17, 40; 2, 61, 127; Liv. 3, 6, 9; Front. de Or. 3; Amm. 24, 2, 2), ōnis, f. [circumeo]. I. A going round; in milit. lang., the rounds: circuitio ac cura (vigiliarum) aedilium plebei erat. Liv. 3, 6, 9.—2. A circuit: muni mentum fluminis circumitione vallatum, Amm 24, 2, 2.—B. Trop., a circuitous mode, a circumlocution. ita aperte ipsam rem modo locutus, nil circuitione usus es, Ter. And. 1, 2, 31:
quid opus est circumitione et anfractu?
Cic. Div. 2, 61, 127, cf. Auct. Her. 4, 32, 43: Epicurus circuitione quādam (in an indirect manner) deos tollens, Cic. Div. 2, 17, 40.—II. Meton. (abstr. pro concr.), a place for going round something, a way, passage, corridor, Vitr. 4, 4; 6, 3; 10, 19.—B. A circumference, compass, Vitr. 1, 5; 2, 10.
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