Vercingetorix, placed in the centre of a kind of semicircle, might easily be considered by Caesar as surrounded by his numerous troops (collocaverat copias circum se).
Duke Guidobaldo had died at Fossombrone, repeating to his friends around his bed these lines of Virgil: Me circum limus niger et deformis arundo Cocyti tardaque palus inamabilis unda Alligat, et novies Styx interfusa coercet.
Some, again, are full of Joy and Triumph: As in Ovid, Ite triumphales circummea tempora lauri.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "circum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
