Circiter centum

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Latin Construction

circiter centum.

  1. ‘About a hundred.’

Constructions

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Loci

  • αʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 6.3:
Bruto curata hoc anno talenta circiter C, Pompeio in sex mensibus promissa CC. About a hundred talents (~$40,000,000) were loaned to Brutus this year; two hundred (~$80,000,000) were promised to Pompey in six months.
  • βʹ Lentulus, ap. Cicero, Ad Familiares 12.15:
itaque C*circiter amissis, aegris relictis noctu Antiochea profugisse Laodiceam versus So after losing about a hundred men, he escaped Antioch that night heading towards Laodicea, leaving the sick behind.