obsideat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →obsideo, obsidere, obsedi, obsessus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Field:
- Military
blockade, besiege, invest, beset; take possession of;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
de Providentia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...custodiantur legionibus terrae, classibus maria, Caesarianus portas miles obsideat, Cato qua exeat habet: una manu latam libertati uiam..."Liber XXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Hannibal hostis incolumi exercitu quartum decimum annum Italiam obsideat, paenitebit te, P. Corneli, gloriae tuae si hostem..."