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LNS

circumfluus, circumflua, circumfluum

circumfluo

adjective (2-1-2)

flowing around, circumfluent
flowed around, surrounded with water
surrounded, encircled

Abbreviations

circumfluus, a, um, adj. circumfluo (poet. or in post-Aug. prose). Act., flowing around, circumfluent: umor, Ov. M. 1, 30: amnis, id. ib. 15, 739: mare, Plin. 2, 66, 66, § 166.

—More freq., Pass., flowed around, surrounded with water: insula, Ov. M. 15, 624: tellus Hadriaco ponto, Luc. 4, 407: Carthago pelago, Sil. 15, 220: urbs Ponto, Val. Fl. 5, 442: campi Euphrate et Tigre, * Tac. A. 6, 37: omnis circumfluo ambitu Pontus est, Amm. 22, 8, 46.

— In gen., surrounded, encircled: chlamys limbo Maeonio, Stat. Th. 6, 540: genitrix gemmis, Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 138.

—Fig.: mens luxu, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 40.