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
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..."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..."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..."
