circuitous Copy link • circuitous: flexuōsus: a c. passage, iter f., Cic.: Val. Max. More usu. expr. by a prep. in composition: as, to seek glory by a c. course, circuitu gloriam petere, Curt. (cf. circuit, I.): to take a c. route, circumagi, Hor.: to make one's way out by c. paths, per anfractus egredi, Petr.: a c. mode of expression, circuĭtio, ambāges: Ter.: Cic.: v. circumlocution.