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* circum -mulcens, entis, Part. [mulceo], licking gently around: linguae (serpentium), Plin. 28, 3, 6, § 30.

circum -mūnĭo (old orthog. cir-cummoenĭo, Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 4), īvi, ītum, 4, v. a., to wall up around, to fortify, secure (freq. in the histt., elsewhere rare; but in MSS. constantly confounded with circumvenire; cf. Oud. ad Caes. B. C. 1, 18; 1, 81; 1, 84; 2, 16; 3, 97; Schneid. ad Col. 5, 9, 11; 5, 10, 1): plantas caveis, Col. 5, 9, 11: oppidum, Auct. B. Afr. 79: Thapsum operibus, id. ib. 80; cf. Auct. B. Hisp. 38: aliquos ut feras, Caes. B. C. 1, 84: (hostes) vallo fossāque, id. ib. 1, 80: crebris castellis circummuniti, id. B. G. 2, 30; Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 4.
Absol., Auct. B. Hisp. 34 fin.

circummūnītĭo, ōnis, f. [circummunio]; in milit. lang., an investing of a town, circumvallation, Caes. B. C. 1, 19 fin.; Auct. B. Hisp. 38 fin.

circum-mūrānus, a, um, adj. [murus], around (but beyond) the walls (perh. only in Amm.): bella, with the neighboring nations, Amm. 14, 6, 4: pericula, id. 21, 13, 2.