adjective
circum-tonsus
Meaning
- shorn all around
circum-tonsus, a, um, Part. [tondeo],
I. shorn all around (rare).
I. Prop., Varr. ap. Non. p. 179, 8; * Suet. Aug. 45:
pinus, Petr. 131, 8, 3.—* II. Trop., of discourse:
oratio circumtonsa et fucata et manu facta, elaborate, artificial, Sen. Ep. 115, 2.