• SURROUND

circumdare alicui rei aliquid or rem aliqua re: cingere aliqua re: circumstare (stand round): circumsedere (sit round): circumsistere (place one’s self round, with accessary notion of oppressing): circumcludere. To surround a besieged city, circumvallare (surround with palisades); vallo et fossa munire or cingere; circummunire; munitione sepire (with works generally); stipare (to surround in masses); sepire or circumsepire (with a hedge or other defence). Carthage is quite surrounded with ports, Carthago succincta est portubus: to surround with walls, moenibus cingere; muris sepire.