To girde or compasse about: to enuirone: to beset: allo to dwell about a place. Amne cingi. Virg. Cinxitque de cen bus berbis. Ouid. Ab armis cingi. Ouid. Auxilio cingi. claud. Excubijs cingi. Claud. Odijs. Claud. To be hated on euery side. Periculis. Cic. To be in daimger euery way. Telis. Virg. Acies cingere discordibus armis. Tibul. Arborem cingere. Paul. To pill, or barke a tree. Ara coronis cingitur. Ouid. Caput de flore cingere. Ouid. Cingere castra vallo. Liu. To cast a trench about. Comas cingere diademate. Claud. To set a crowne vpon. Comam lauro cingere. Horat. To set a garland of laurell vpon his heade. Vitta comas cingit. Ouid. Corpore externo cingi. Cic. Tenebræ cingunt diem. Sen. When it is a close darke day. Muris cingere domos. Val. Flac. Flumina ripis cingere. Ouid. Fossas munimine cingere. Ouid. Iudicium cingere corona. Luca. To inclose with company. Turba latus tibi cingit. Ouid. Thou art enuironed with a great company. Flammis mœnia cingere. Virg. Milites rara muros cinxere corona. Virg. Fossæ cingebant oppida. Ouid. The rownes were ditched about. Oppida muris cinguntur. Ouid. Be walled about. Aues cœtu cingere polum dicuntur. Virg. When a number of birdes flie round in the ayre. Portas aggere cingere. Stat. To compasse the gates with a bulwarke. Cingitur & concluditur vrbe portus. Cic. The hauen is inclosed within the citie. Saltus indagine cingere. Virg. Rura fluuio cinguntur. Se. Saltus venatu cingere. Claud. To set the nets or toyle round about the lawnes. Seges altis sepibus cingenda. Ouid. Sinus mucrone cingere. Claud. To girde his sworde about him. Syluam cingere. Alphenus. To pill or barke woode. Cingere syluas. Sen. To compasse round. Tempora sloribus cingere. Catul. To set a garland on his heade. Cingere tempora viridanti lauro. Virg. Tempora cingere spicis. Tib. To set on a garland of wheate eares. Cingit vrbem Alduabis fluuius. Cæs. Runneth about. Cingere vrbem copijs & militibus. Liu. To besiege. Vrbem mœnibus cingere. Cic. To wall about. Vrbem obsidione cingere. Virg. To besiege. Pinnis atque aggere vrbem cingere. Virg. Vrbem religione cingere. Cic. Cingere insignibus fortunæ principalis aliquem. Tac. Aonium nemus Marte cingere. Tibul. To practise both study and warre togither. Cingitur, certè expedit se. Plaut. He is girded or trussed. Armis cingi. Virg. To be armed. Ense latus cinxit. Ouid. He girt his sword about him. Cingere se gladio. Liu. Idem. Cingi venenis. Val. Flac. To be beset with poysons. Flamma cingere. Virg. To set a sire round about. Cingere. Val. Flac. To dwell round about. vt, Lacum cinxêre Bicen. Cingi cum aliquo. Claud. To be ioyned with.

I. Prop

A. In gen.: quid autem interius mente? Cingatur igitur corpore externo, i. e. it must be enclosed in a body, Cic. N. D 1, 11, 27: non enim coron consessus vester cinctus est, ut solebat, id. Mil. 1, 1; cf.: judicium insolitā trepidum cinxere coronă, Luc. 1, 321; tris (navīs) Eurus... Inhdit vadis atque aggere cingit harenae, Verg. A 1, 112: cincta serpentibus Hydra, id. ib 7, 658: pennae ritu coepere volucrum Cingere utrumque latus, to cover, Ov M. 6, 718, apio fasces et secto cingere porro, Col. 10, 371.—

B. Esp.

1. To surround the body with a girdle, to gird on (the sword), to gird; esp. freq in pass. with abl., to be girded, encircled with something. iam quasi zonā, liene cinctus ambulo, Plaut Curc. 2, 1, 5; Curt. 3, 3, 19; cf.: cui lati clavi jus erit, ita cingatur, ut, etc., Quint. 11, 3, 138: ut cingeretur fluxiore cincturā, Suet. Caes. 45: Hispano cingitur gladio, Liv. 7, 10, 5; 38, 21, 13; Suet. Calig 49: ferro, id. Aug. 35: ense, Ov F. 2, 13: cingor fulgentibus armis, Verg A. 2, 749; 11, 188, 11, 536; his cingi telis, id ib. 2, 520: ense latus cingit, Ov F. 2, 784; cf. Stat. Th. 4, 41: cinctas resolvite vestes, Ov M. 1, 382. filios balteis, Vulg. Lev 8, 13.—Poet., in pass with acc. (cf. accingor, II., and Zumpt, Gr 458): inutile ferrum Cingitur, Verg. A. 2, 511: cinctaeque ad pectora vestes Bracchia docta movent, Ov M. 6, 59.—Without case: Syrinx, Ov M. 1, 695; puer alte cinctus, Hor. S. 2, 8, 10.—Hence, in late Lat. cinctus = armis instructus, armatus, armed, equipped, enrolled: cinctus in aliā militiā, Dig. 39, 1, 38; cf. ib. 39, 1, 25.—As a girding up of the Roman dress was necessary in pursuits requiring physical action, hence, cingor (cf accingor), to make one's self ready for any thing, to prepare: cingitur, certe expedit se, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 152; cingitur ipse furens certatim in proelia Turnus, Verg. A. 11, 486; cf. supra, Quint. 11, 3, 138; Hor S. 2, 8, 10; Ov. M. 6, 59.—

2. To encircle with a garland or crown, to crown (freq., esp in the poets).

a. Of the head: muralique caput summum cinxere coronā, Lucr. 2, 607; cf. Ov A. A. 3, 392 tempora floribus, Hor. C. 3, 25, 20; Verg A. 5, 71: spicis, Tib. 2, 1, 4 et saep.: comam lauro, Hor. C. 3, 30, 16; cf.: Graias barbara vitta comas, Ov. Tr. 4, 4, 78; Verg. A. 12, 163: de tenero cingite flore caput, Ov F 3, 254.—Poet.: Atlantis, cinctum assidue cui nubibus atris Piniferum caput et vento pulsatur et imbri, Verg. A. 4, 248; 7, 658; Prop. 4 (5), 1, 61.—

b. To encircle other parts of the body: cujus lacertos anuli mei cingant, Mart. 11, 100, 2.—

3. Of places, to surround, encircle, invest, enclose (the prevailing signif. in prose, esp. in the histt.; syn.: circumdo, claudo): (Tellus) oras maris undique cingens, Lucr. 6, 633; Cat. 64, 185; 64, 286: flumen Dubis paene totum oppidum cingit, Caes. B. G. 1, 38 provincia mari cincta, Cic. Fl. 12, 27: urbe portus ipse cingitur et continetur, id. Verr. 2, 5, 37, 96 Zumpt: quod moenibus cingebatur, Tac. A. 13, 41: quae (terra) magnā ex parte cingitur fluctibus, speciem insulae praebet, etc., Curt. 3, 1, 13; 8, 10, 23; Ov A. A. 2, 469: cingitur insula tribus millibus passuum, i.e. has a circuit of, etc., Plin. 6, 12, 13, 32.—Poet.: cinxerunt aethera nimbi, covered, Verg. A. 5, 13: medium diem cinxere tenebrae, Sen. Herc. Fur. 939.—Trop.; diligentius urbem religione quam ipsis moenibus cingitis, fortify, Cic. N. D. 3, 40, 94.—

4. In milit. lang., to surround a place or army for defence or in a hostile manner, to fortify, to invest, be set, besiege: coronā militum cincta urbs, Liv. 7, 27, 7: castra vallo, id 7, 39, 8 equites cornua cinxere. covered, id. 23, 29, 3: ultimum agmen validā manu, to cover, Curt. 4, 13, 30: urbem obsidione, to besieye, Verg. A. 3, 52; dextera cingitur amni, id. ib. 9, 469: (hostem) stationibus in modum obsidii, Tac. A. 6, 34: cingi ab armis hostium, Ov. P. 2, 8, 69; Tib. 2, 3, 37, Prop. 3 (4), 3, 42.—Trop Sicilia multis undique cincta persons. Cio. Imp. Pomp 11, 30.—

5. To escort, to accompany inermi item regi praetor Achaeorum et unus ex purpuratis latus cingebant, Liv 32, 39, 8: dum latus sancti cingit tibi turba senatus, Ov P. 4, 9, 17: nec noscitur ulli, Agminibus comitum qui mode cinctus erat, id. Tr. 1, 5, 30: cincta virgo matrum catervā, id M. 12, 216, Vell 2, 14, 1, Tac. A. 1, 77; Sil 4, 448, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 322—

C. To peel off the bark around: cingere est deglabrare, Dig. 47, 7, 6 Pr, cf. Plin 17, 24, 37, 234 sqq.