compass (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Stretch, scope1. gȳrus, i, m.2. fīnes, cancelliII. Compasses, pair ofIII. Mariner's c. • compass (subs.): I. Stretch, scope: 1. gȳrus, i, m.: you confine the orator to a very narrow c., in exiguum sane g. oratorem compellitis, Cic. de Or. 3, 19, 70: Col. 2. fīnes, cancelli: v. limits, BOUNDARIES. Phr: to treat (the whole subject of civil law) within a narrow c., in parvum quendam angustumque concludere, Cic.; so, in exiguum angustumque concludere, Cic.: to confine oneself within a narrow c. (of literal translation), in artum (arctum) desilire, Hor.: he would sing through the whole c. of his voice, citaret, modo summa voce, modo hac resonat quae chordis quatuor ima, Hor.: v. extent, reach, circumference. II. Compasses, pair of: circĭnus: Caes.: Vitr. III. Mariner's c.: "pyxis nautica; magneticae acus capsula": Kr. (Perh. better *acus magnetica alone.)
compass (v.) Copy link Outline I. To encompassII. To accomplish (q. v.) • compass (v.): I. To encompass: q. v. II. To accomplish (q. v.): exsĕquor, consĕquor, 3; patro, perpetro, 1.
COMPASS Copy link • COMPASS 1. ambitus (with regard to expansion in general, e.g., of heaven and earth, caeli et terrarum: of the camp, castrorum): circuitus (with regard to width, extent, also that of any writing, voluminis, Suet., Vitr.): circumscriptio (a circle described, as it were, round anything, e.g., of the earth, terrae): complexus (with regard to the space encompassed, e.g., caeli, mundi): the great compass, magnitudo circuitus: the wide compass, latus ambitus; amplitudo: of great compass, magnus (e.g., a book, liber): of wide compass, lato ambitu; amplus: of enormous compass, vastus (also of the voice): to have a great or wide compass, habere magnum or latum ambitum; late patere (especially of a country; then, also, figuratively = to be of extensive application): in compass, in circuitu; also circuitu: the island is 25, 000 paces in compass, insula viginti quinque millia passuum circuitu patet; insula cingitur viginti quinque millibus passuum: the thing in its whole compass, res tota or universa: to have studied, or to know the whole compass of anything, rem omnem didicisse or novisse; alicujus rei peritissimum esse; to be confined within a narrow compass, to lie in a narrow compass, exiguis finibus contineri (e.g., Latini suis finibus, exiguis sane, continentur): cancelli (the boundary; figuratively the line which ought not to be passed): modus (the measure by means of which an object is limited according to space, time, and degree). The mariner’s compass: *capsula acus magneticae (the box of a compass): *acus magnetica nautarum (the magnetic needle itself). 2. circumdare alicui rei aliquid or rem aliqua re: cingere aliqua re (to enclose with anything): circumstare (to stand around): circumsedere (to sit around, as it were of besiegers): stipare (to surround in masses): sepire. circumsepire (to surround with either a hedge or any work intended for a defence): amplecti: complecti (to encompass, surround on all sides), circumplecti (to inclose all round): complecti: comprehendere (physically and metaphysically to comprise). To go round: ambire (go all around anything): obire (go round, in order to see, to inspect, etc.): circumire (go round, not to go in, therefore improper: aliquid vitabundum circumire, to avoid anything in discourse, e.g., anybody’s name, alicujus nomen, post-Augustan). To attain: consequi: assequi (overtake): adipisci (to attain, reach an object, for which one had a desire or longing): impetrare (effect or obtain what has been requested): obtinere (place one’s self in possession after obstinate resistance): by violence, exprimere, extorquere: to compass the highest power, rerum potiri.