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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• surround:
    1. I. To be round:
      1. 1. cingo, nxi, nctum, 3: the mountains which s. Thessaly, montes qui Thessaliam c., Caes. B. G. 3, 36: the harbour is s.'d by the city, portus urbe cingitur et concluditur, Cic. Verr. 5, 37, 96.
      2. 2. circumsto, stĕti, 1: when such terrors s.'d them on all sides, quum tanti undique terrores circumstarent, Liv. 6, 2.
      3. 3. conclūdo, si, sum, 3: a sea s.'d with land, mare conclusum, Caes. B. G. 3, 9.
      4. 4. stīpo, 1: s.'d by hosts of friends, stipatus gregibus amicorum, Cic. Att. 1, 18.
    2. II. To surround with, put round:
      1. 1. circumdo, dĕdi, dătum, 1: I s.'d the town with a trench, fossa oppidum circumdedi, Cic. Fam. 15, 4: to s. the assembly with armed men, armatos contioni circd., Liv. 34, 27.
      2. 2. cingo, 3: to be s.'d by the arms of the enemy, cingi ab armis hostium, Ov. Pont. 2, 8, 69.
      3. 3. circumcludo, si, sum, 3: they s. the horns with a silver rim, cornua ab labris argento c., Caes. B. G. 6, 28.
      4. 4. circumsēpio, septus, 4: to s. a lake with buildings, stagnum aedificiis c., Suet. Ner. 31.
      5. 5. sēpio, psi, ptum, 4: to s. a wood with nets, saltum plagis s., Lucr. 5, 1251.
      6. 6. circumfundo, fūdi, fūsum, 3: I saw Cato sitting s.'d by many Stoic treatises, M. Catonem sedentem vidi multis circumfusum Stoicorum libris, Cic. Fin. 3, 2, 7: to s. with cohorts, circumf. cohortes, Tac. A. 12, 38.
      7. 7. circumvĕnio, vēni, ventum, 4: a plain s.'d by somewhat higher ground, planities locis paullo superioribus circumventa, Sall. J. 71.
      8. 8. circumvallo, 1: to s. a place with two furrows, locum duobus sulcis c., Col. 11, 3, 4.
    3. III. Military t. t.:
      1. 1. to invest: circumsĕdeo: cingo: circumvallo: v. invest, besiege.
      2. 2. to out-flank: to s. men, aliquos circumvenire, Tac. Agr. 37: to be s.'d by the enemy, circumiri ab hostibus, Nep. Dat. 7.