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obsident

Dictionary entries

obsideo, obsidere, obsedi, obsessus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
Frequency:
Frequent
Field:
Military
blockade, besiege, invest, beset; take possession of;
Entry →
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
obsido, obsidere, -, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
Frequency:
Lesser
Field:
Military
besiege; occupy;
Entry →
pl. fut. act. ind. 3rd

Examples

Liber X

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA

"...gurgite Nilirex puer inbellis populi sedauerat iras,obside quo pacis Pellaea tutus in aula 55Caesar erat..."

Liber VIII

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA

"...paruo pignore uobis 130ostendi: tenuit nostros hac obside Lesbosadfectus; hic sacra domus carique penates,hic mihi Roma fuit..."

Hannibal

Cornelius Nepos

"...corona aurea eos donarent simulque peterent, ut obsides eorum Fregellis essent captivique redderentur. His ex senatus consulto responsum..."

Libri XIV-XV

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM

"...ingenium est; aliquando frustra admoventur, si animum opiniones obsident pravae. Deinde etiam si recte faciunt, nesciunt facere..."

Liber I

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS

"...aliis periculis, quae uaria et incerta humanam uitam obsident. Quidquid horum discusserimus, quo maius ac terribilius erit..."

Thyestes

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE

"...omnis ira et ex animo tumor erasus abeat. Obsides fidei accipe hos innocentes, frater. ATREVS: A genibus manum..."

Gaius

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM

"...neque alienae pepercit. M. Lepidum, Mnesterem pantomimum, quosdam obsides dilexisse fertur commercio mutui stupri. Valerius Catullus, consulari familia..."

Poenulus

Titus Maccius Plautus

"...aequo nunc stent, vel dormire temperent. servi ne obsideant, liberis ut sit locus, vel aes pro capite dent..."