Gyrus, gyn, m. g. Virg.A cirtuite or compasse.Ex ingenti quodam Oratorem immensóque campo in exiguum sane gyrum compellitis.Cic.A smal compasse.Homines secundis rebus effrænatos, tanquam in gyrum orationis & doctrinæ duci oportere.Cic.Within the tircuit of reason.Ætius gyrus. Catul. A circuite in the aire. Equus abrumpit gyros medios tremulo poplite. Lucan. The hoise stumbleth in the middes of his tarrire.Agere gyros. Sen. To turne or runne round.Curuo contendere gyro. Tibul. Ducit per aera gyros miluius.Ouidius.The kite flieth round in the aise.Exiguos format per prima volumina gyros. Sil. Ire in gyros coactus equus.Ouidius.Constrained to turne tound.Patulus gyrus. Val Flac. Bruma niualem interiore diem gyro trabit. Horat. In winter the course of the sunne and day is shorter: or winter maketh the dayes shorter.Lunatus gyrus. Sil. Volat ingenti gyro.Virg.Ancipiti gyro volui.Stat.Rotatiles gyri. Sidonius.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
grus, i, m., = gu=ros, a circle, esp. that which is described by a horse in its movements (mostly poet.; cf.: circus, circulus, orbis, orbita). I.Lit.: nec equi variare gyros in morem nostrum docentur, Tac. G. 6; so of a circular course, ring, for horses, Verg. G. 3, 115: carpere gyrum, id. ib. 3, 191: curvo brevius compellere gyro, Tib. 4, 1, 93; Manil. 5, 74; Ov. A. A. 3, 384; Luc. 1, 425 et saep.: adytis cum lubricus anguis ab imis Septem ingens gyros, septena volumina traxit, Verg. A. 5, 85: ducensque per aëra gyros Miluus, Ov. Am. 2, 6, 33: apes gyros volatu edunt, Plin. 11, 20, 22, 68: grues gyros quosdam indecoro cursu peragunt, id. 10, 23, 30, 59: quem (turbinem) pueri magno in gyro...intenti ludo exercent, Verg. A. 7, 379: in gyrum Euripo addito (in Circo), i. e.
around
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round about
, Suet. Caes. 39.—B.Transf., the place where horses are trained, a course (poet.): gyrum pulsat equis, Prop. 3, 14 (4, 13), 11.—II.Trop., a circle, circuit, career, course: mensis artiore (quam annus) praecingitur circulo; angustissimum habet dies gyrum, Sen. Ep. 12; cf.: seu bruma nivalem Interiore diem gyro trahit, Hor. S. 2, 6, 26: similique gyro venient aliorum vices,
circuit
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course
, Phaedr. 4, 26, 25: homines secundis rebus effrenatos tamquam in gyrum rationis et doctrinae duci oportere, Cic. Off. 1, 26, 70: oratorem in exiguum gyrum compellere, id. de Or. 3, 19, 70; Prop. 3, 3 (4, 2), 21; cf.: attrahe vela Fortius et gyro curre, poëta, tuo, Ov. R. Am. 398: in dialecticae gyris consenescere, Gell. 16, 8, 17.