confinis (having a common frontier): conjunctus alicui loco (Vid: Held., Caes., B.G., 1, 64), continens alicui loco, or cum aliquo loco: attingens aliquem locum (Cic., Fam., 15, 4, 4): ☞ affinis, in this sense, occurs in classical prose only in Liv., 28, 17, 5: conterminus and contiguus, poetical, and in later writers. [Vid: CONTIGUOUS].