Circiter Idus

Latin Construction

circiter Idus.

1. ‘Around the Ides;’ about the middle of the month.

Constructions

Noun constructions

• circiter Idus Sextiles — ‘around mid-August,’ Cic. [γʹ], [δʹ]

Verb constructions

• circiter Idus esse — ‘to be [somewhere] around the Ides,’ Cic. [βʹ], [δʹ]

Loci

• αʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 2.17:

Verum, ut scribis, haec in Arpinati a. d. VI. circiter Idus Maias non deflebimus [...] sed conferemus tranquillo animo.

True, as you say, we won't be crying about this at Arpinum around the tenth of May; we will discuss it calmly.

• βʹ v. Cicero, Ad Familiares 14.5:

Nos, si di adiuvabunt, circiter Idus Novembres in Italia speramus fore.

We hope, if the gods are on our side, to be in Italy around the 9th of November.

• γʹ n. Cicero, Ad Familiares 15.3:

Circiter Idus Sext. ab Epheso in Syriam navibus profectus erat.

He had shipped out from Ephesus towards Syria around the 13th of August.

• δʹ n.v. Cicero, Ad Familiares 3.5:

Deinde iter faciam ad exercitum, ut circiter Idus Sextiles putem me ad Iconium fore.

Then I will make my way towards the army, so I think I should be at Konya around the 13th of August.

• εʹ Cicero, In Verrem Secunda 1.148:

Diem praestituit operi faciundo Kalendas Decembris, locat circiter Idus Septembris; angustiis temporis excluduntur omnes.

He set up a day for the work to be done, the first of December, and he contracts around mid-September; all are excluded by the shortness of the time.