cingō xī, īnctus, ere, to go around, surround, encompass, environ, gird, wreathe, crown: Cingatur (mens) corpore: coronā consessus cinctus est: (navīs) aggere cingit harenae, V.: os cinctum serpentibus.

— To surround with a girdle, gird on, gird

— esp. pass. with abl, to be girded, be encircled: sacerdotes Pellibus cincti, in leather girdles, V.: Hispano cingitur gladio, L.: cingor fulgentibus armis, V.: ense latus cingit, O.: cinctas resolvite vestes, O.: inutile ferrum Cingitur, V.: cinctae ad pectora vestes, O.: puer alte cinctus, i. e. ready, H.

—Pass, to gird oneself, make ready, prepare: Cingitur in proelia, V.

—To encircle with a garland, crown. tempora pampino, H.: tempora ramis, V. de tenero flore caput, O.

—Of places, to surround, encircle, invest, enclose: civitas cincta Gallorum gentibus: flumen oppidum cingit, Cs.: urbe portus ipse cingitur: mare, quo cingi terrarum orbem fides, bounded, Ta.: cinxerunt aethera nimbi, covered, V.

—Fig.: diligentius urbem religione quam ipsis moenibus, fortify.

—In war, to surround, fortify, invest, beset, besiege: castra vallo, L.: equitatus latera cingebat, Cs.: urbem obsidione, to besiege, V.

— Fig.: Sicilia multis undique cincta periculis, beset: flammā Reginam, envelope in the fire of love, V.

—To escort, accompany: regi praetor et unus ex purpuratis latus cingebant, L.: cincta virgo matrum catervā, O.