claudere (shut up): concludere (to shut quite up by surrounding with anything; in anything, in re): includere (in anything, in re; seldom in the sense of “surrounding with’): cingere (surround with): circumdare (throw round, surround; aliquid alicui and aliquid aliqua re; e.g., moenia urbi, or urbem moenibus). To enclose with a hedge, sepe cingere: sepire; with a wall, muro (muris) sepire; moenibus cingere; with works, operibus complecti (e.g., a hill, collem); with a rampart and ditch, circumdare or sepire vallo et fossa: the enemy, hostem circumvenire: the soul is enclosed in the body, animus in corpore conclusus est; animus in corporis compagibus inclusus est: to enclose a letter, epistolam alteri jungere or adjungere, or cum altera conjungere; epistolam in eundem fasciculum addere (to enclose it in the same packet: ☞ not includere epistolam). Have the goodness to forward the enclosed, epistolam cum hac conjunctam perferendam curabis: to be enclosed by very high mountains, altissimis montibus contineri: to enclose (a passage) in brackets, *uncis (☞ not uncinis) includere: to be enclosed by armies, exercitibus circumcludi (Cic.); claudi (Nep.). [Vid: SHUT UP, SURROUND.] To enclose a town, urbem obsidione claudere, in obsidione tenere (Nep.); corona circumdare; obsidere (Liv.) Vid: BLOCKADE.