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circumitiones Noun: feminine vocative plural, Noun: feminine accusative plural, Noun: feminine nominative plural of circuitio

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circŭĭtĭo (circŭmĭtĭo, Cic. Div. 2, 17, 40; 2, 61, 127; Liv. 3, 6, 9; Front. de Or. 3; Amm.24, 2, 2), ōnis, f. [circumeo].
  • A going round; in milit. lang., the rounds: circuitio ac cura (vigiliarum) aedilium plebei erat. Liv. 3, 6, 9.—
      • 2 A circuit: munimentum fluminis circumitione vallatum, Amm.24, 2, 2.—
    • B Trop., a circuitous mode, a circumlocution. ita aperte ipsam rem modo locutus, nil circuitione usus es, Ter. And. 202: quid opus est circumitione et anfractu? Cic. Div. 2, 61, 127, cf. Auct. Her. 4, 32, 43: Epicurus circuitione quādam (in an indirect manner) deos tollens, Cic. Div. 2, 17, 40.—
  • II Meton. (abstr. pro concr.), a place for going round something, a way, passage, corridor, Vitr. 4, 4; 6, 3; 10, 19.—
    • B A circumference, compass, Vitr. 1, 5; 2, 10.

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