Circiter Kalendas

Latin Construction

circiter Kalendas.

1. ‘Around the Kalends;’ around the first of the month.

Constructions

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Loci

• αʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 12.27:

sciri enim iam puto ubi Pansam exspectet — si, ut consuetudo est, in prima provincia, circiter Kal. adfuturus videtur.

Of course by now I think it's known where he expects Pansa — if it's at the edge of his province, as it usually is, it looks like it will be around the first of the month.

• βʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 2.4:

nos circiter Kal. aut in Formiano erimus aut in Pompeiano.

Around the first of the month we'll either be at our place in Formiae or in Pompeii.

• γʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 5.18:

nihil enim certi habebamus nisi accepisse nos tuas litteras a. d. XIV. Kal. Sextil. datas, in quibus scriptum esset te in Epirum iturum circiter Kal. Sextil.

For we had nothing for certain, except for your letter we received dated July 19, where it had been written that you would be going to Epirus around the first of August.

• δʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 6.1:

Philotimum circiter Kal. Ianuarias in Chersonesum audio venisse

I hear that Philotimus came to the Chersonese around the first of January.

• εʹ Cicero, Ad Familiares 13.57:

Ego in Ciliciam proficisci cogito circiter Kal. Maias.

I'm considering heading off to Cilicia around the first of May.