circumsedissent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →circumsedeo, circumsedere, circumsedi, circumsessus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
besiege/invest/blockade; surround, mob (person), beset; sit/live/settle round;
pl. pluperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- T
Liber XXIX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quondam quo ab Sicilia diuidimur ad perniciem nauigantium circumsedisse fabulae ferunt. ac si scelus libidinemque et auaritiam solus..." - T
Liber XXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...agros hostium induxerit. Galli oram extremae siluae cum circumsedissent, ubi intravit agmen saltum, tum extremas arborum succisarum impellunt..."