saepire

saepire, sepire [CL] 1 to construct a hedge, embankment, or wall around (piece of land, building, or town), to enclose with a wall, hedge, or embankment (also in fig. context); b (person); c (w. ref. to monk; cf. saeptum 3); d (transf.). e to serve as a boundary for, to bound (also fig.). f (absol., also pr. ppl. in appos. or as sb.) to construct a hedge, dike, ditch and bank, or embankment. [paradisus] ~tus est undique rumphea flamma, i. muro igneo accinctus Comm. Cant. II 9; ~it, munit GlC S 262; urbem ‥ triplici muro ~tam Ord. Vit. X 20 p. 123; ut de ubertate illius ~iantur, excolantur, plantentur, seminentur, et alii [horti] J. Ford Serm. 44. 8; 1280 Ricardus Bacun in una lege contra Gunnildam de Bertone de brace[n]o suo quia non ~it bracenum suum contra voluntatem Gunnilde CourtR A. Stratton 134; 1514 rector habet quandam partem terre dominii ‥ quam preceptum est ut restituat collegio vel ~iri patiatur Reg. Merton I 447. b donec dira fames consumpsit strage catervas / moenibus obstructas et muri carcere saeptas Aldh. CE 4. 7. 24. c qui regularibus claustris ~ti ‥ estis Ord. Vit. III 3 p. 50. d nimbosas ‥ Alpes / aggeribus niveis et montis vertice saeptas Aldh. CE 3. 25; cor mihi sub genibus, nam constat carcere saeptum Id. Aen. 34 (Locusta) 4; et martyres omnes peto anthletas / ‥ / ut[i] me per illos salus sepiat [gl.: ymbsylle] / atque omne malum a me pereat (Laidcenn Mac Baíth Lorica) Cerne 85 (= Nunnam. 91); siquidem extimplo fures vertigine clausit / et cunctos pariter tetra dementia sepsit, / donec ‥ Mir. Nin. 221; hic carneo ~tus velamine B. V. Dunst. 29; spectari duos armis ~tos et equis impositos Lucian Chester 61. e c730 (11c) notis limitibus haec terra ‥ ad orientem via regia ~ta, ab aquilone fluvialibus cingitur undis CS 163; est quaternarius adhuc humano bis bino septus stemate, id est pueritia, adholescentia, juventute, senectute Byrht. Man. 204. f 12‥ ~io, G. fere haye Teaching Latin II 17; 1508 sol’ [diversis] ~ientibus cum lez wykkes et facientibus foveam in villa de O. biparciend’ eandem, viz. querendo le whikkes, plantando, fodiendo foveam, et eciando ad profunditatem iij qar ‥ cont’ clx rodez ‥ . et sol’ pro fossacione ejusdem cum lez stakes et ricez Ac. Durh. 660. 2 (transf., of people) to surround (area or piece of land). b (in hostile manner); c (for protection). s1381 domini ‥ ~serunt sylvas, ne ullus ‥ ex eis evaderet Wals. HA II 19. b 672 utpote belliger in meditullio campi arcister legionum falangibus ~tus aemulorum spissis Aldh. Ep. 5 p. 493. c ~tus suorum cuneis iter ‥ arripuit Gir. EH II 3 p. 313; ipse militum agmine pulcherrimo ~tus Id. Æthelb. 6; Plato cum vidisset Dionisium corporis sui ~tum custodibus ‘tantum’ inquit, ‘malum fecisti ut ita a multis custodiaris’ Gros. Hexaem. proem. 11. 3 to block or stop (road or path, w. hedge or sim. ; cf. Os. ii 6); b (transf.). 1166 eo quod ‥ vias eorum acutissimis ~it spinis J. Sal. Ep. 176 (173); 1167 ~iat Deus viam asciscentis et venientis spinis Ib. 198 (213 p. 350). b ~ite, fratres mei, ~ite aures vestras contra venenata colloquia J. Ford Serm. 40. 3. 4 (in gl.). ~io, -is, -ivi, -tum, -tu, verbum activum, i. circumdare Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 518; ~ire, circumdare, ambire, circumcludere, circumtexere Ib. 556.

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