obsedit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →obsideo, obsidere, obsedi, obsessus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Field:
- Military
blockade, besiege, invest, beset; take possession of;
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...feris. Sed dux malorum femina: haec scelerum artifex obsedit animos, huius incestae stupris fumant tot urbes, bella..."Appendix Perottina
Gaius Phaedrus
"...cruci,ne subeat ille poenas neglegentiae.Sic turpitudo laudis obsedit locum. XVI. [Duo proci]Fortunam interdum praeter spem atque..."Aeneid VII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Latium et Laurentis tecta tyranni celsa petit, tacitumque obsedit limen Amatae, quam super adventu Teucrum Turnique hymenaeis femineae..."Aeneid III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Narycii posuerunt moenia Locri, et Sallentinos obsedit milite campos Lyctius Idomeneus; hic illa ducis Meliboei parva Philoctetae subnixa..."Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...Athamas, tectoque exire parabant: obstitit infelix aditumque obsedit Erinys, nexaque vipereis distendens bracchia nodis caesariem excussit: motae sonuere..."Liber XL
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Postumius prima et tertia legione Ballistam Letumque montes obsedit, et premendo praesidiis angustos saltus eorum commeatus interclusit, inopiaque..."Liber XXXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...substitit itineraque quibus ad castra recursuri uidebantur hostes obsedit. iam passim caedes ac fuga erat, necdum quisquam..."