obsidens
Dictionary entries
- Entry →obsideo, obsidere, obsedi, obsessus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Field:
- Military
blockade, besiege, invest, beset; take possession of;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part. - Entry →obsido, obsidere, -, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Field:
- Military
besiege; occupy;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
- L
ad Polybium
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...alium solitudo [alium labor] torquet, alium semper vestibulum obsidens turba; hic habere se dolet liberos, hic perdidisse: lacrimae..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...conferet heros, cum Phrygii Teucro manabunt sanguine Troicaque obsidens longinquo moenia bello, periuri Pelopis vastabit tertius heres. currite..." - P
Liber XVI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Neapolim pergit; et quia aditu Neronis prohibebatur, egressus obsidens, audiret insontem neve consulatus sui quondam collegam dederet liberto..."
