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circum-tondeo, v. circumtonsus.

circum-tŏno, ui, 1, v. a.,

  1. I. to thunder around; or, poet., to make a noise or clamor around: virum armis, Sil. 4, 254: aulam strepitu, id. 6, 216: montem undā, Claud. in Rufin. 1, 274.
  2. II. Trop.: hunc circumtonuit gaudens Bellona cruentis (the figure taken from the clanging of the war-trumpets), Hor. S. 2, 3, 223.

circum-tonsus, a, um, Part. [tondeo], shorn all around (rare).

  1. I. Prop., Varr. ap. Non. p. 179, 8; * Suet. Aug. 45: pinus, Petr. 131, 8, 3.
  2. * II. Trop., of discourse: oratio circumtonsa et fucata et manu facta, elaborate, artificial, Sen. Ep. 115, 2.