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
- L
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..." - G
Appendix Perottina
Gaius Phaedrus
"...cruci,ne subeat ille poenas neglegentiae.Sic turpitudo laudis obsedit locum. XVI. [Duo proci]Fortunam interdum praeter spem atque..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - T
Liber XL
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Postumius prima et tertia legione Ballistam Letumque montes obsedit, et premendo praesidiis angustos saltus eorum commeatus interclusit, inopiaque..." - T
Liber XXXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...substitit itineraque quibus ad castra recursuri uidebantur hostes obsedit. iam passim caedes ac fuga erat, necdum quisquam..."