circumsessus
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;
nom. sg. perf. pass. part.
Examples
- T
Liber XXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...proditus deinde ab eis qui in Insula erant circumsessus ab uniuersa ciuitate quae Achradinam tenuerit nequiquam palam atque..." - T
Liber IV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...exercitus se in montes proximos reciperent. Tumulus tamen circumsessus ultra mediam noctem est; quo cum circumsedentibus nuntiatum esset..."