adjaceo

ad-jăcĕo, cŭi, no sup., 2, v. n., to lie at or near, to be contiguous to, to border upon (most freq. used of the geog. position of a place).—Constr. with dat., acc., ad, or absol. (in the histt. very freq.).—

(α).

With dat.:

Tuscus ager Romano adjacet,

Liv. 2, 49, 9;

mari,

id. 26, 42, 4; Plin. 6, 17, 21, § 56; Front. Strat. 3, 9, 5:

cum Romani adjacerent vallo,

Tac. A. 1, 65:

munitionibus,

id. ib. 4, 48:

adjacet undis moles,

Ov. M. 11, 729:

quae adjacent torrenti Jeboc,

Vulg. Deut. 2, 37.— Trop.:

velle adjacet mihi,

Vulg. Rom. 7, 18; 7, 21.—

(β).

With acc.:

gentes, quae mare illud adjacent,

Nep. Tim. 2, 1:

Etruriam,

Liv. 7, 12, 6 (v. Alschefski and Weissenb. ad h. l.).—

(γ).

With ad:

ad Syrtim,

Mel. 1, 7, 2; so perh. also Caes. B. G. 6, 33, 2: quae (regio) ad Aduatucos adjacet (for the lect. vulg. Aduatucos or Aduatucis ), and id. B. C. 2, 1; v. adigo fin. —

(δ).

Absol.:

adjacet (via) et mollior et magis trita,

Quint. 1, 6, 22:

adjacente Tiberi,

Tac. H. 2, 93; so,

adjacentes populi, i. q. propinqui,

contiguous, neighboring, Tac. A. 13, 55.—And adjăcentĭa, ium, n., the adjoining country:

lacum in adjacentia erupturum,

Tac. A. 1, 79; 5, 14:

projecto nitore adjacentia inlustrare,

Plin. 37, 9, 52, § 137.