obsederunt
Dictionary entries
- Entry →obsideo, obsidere, obsedi, obsessus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Field:
- Military
blockade, besiege, invest, beset; take possession of;
pl. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XL
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Manlianum, per quem transiturum exercitum Romanum satis sciebant, obsederunt. in Hispaniam ulteriorem eunti L. Postumio Albino collegae Gracchus..."Liber XXXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...publicum effudit unoque agmine omnes Brutorum ianuas obsederunt, qui collegarum rogationi intercedebant, nec ante abstiterunt quam remissa intercessio..."