(α) To go round from one place or person to another, ire circa, with an accusative of the places or persons to which one goes (general term): circumire, likewise with an accusative of the persons or places (both general term and, (a) especially to go from one person to another, to entreat, exhort, etc.; stronger than ambire): ambire, with an accusative of the persons or places, or more usually absolutely (to go with a request or prayer, now to one, now to another; in the time of the republic, only of the candidates who went about to their friends and among the people, in order to obtain their votes). To go round to the houses, circa domos ire: ambire domos (as a candidate in canvassing for an office): to go round the families, circumire per familias: to go round all the doors (round the house), omnes fores aedificii circumire. (b) Of things; to be given or carried round, circumferri (both of things, as a bowl, etc., which are handed round; and of a saying, a report, which spreads abroad): to cause the cup to go round, poculum circumferre. (β) To flow, surround a place, locum or aliquid ambire (both of persons and things): locum or aliquid cingere (to surround, of things; also, of a river): circumfundi alicui loco (to flow round about; of a river): if = to turn round; Vid: “To TURN round. “