obsidier
Dictionary entries
- Entry →obsido, obsidere, -, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Field:
- Military
besiege; occupy;
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
- P
Metamorphoses XIV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...veri; nec contentus eo, missi de gente Molossa obsidis unius iugulum mucrone resolvit atque ita semineces partim ferventibus..." - P
Metamorphoses I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...veri; nec contentus eo, missi de gente Molossa obsidis unius iugulum mucrone resolvit atque ita semineces partim ferventibus..." - G
Liber I
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...palam si colloqui vellent, concessum est, datur obsidis loco Caesari filius Afranii. Venitur in eum locum, quem Caesar..." - P
Liber XV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...duce quidem Romano incursarentur, sed temeritate obsidis tot per annos inter mancipia habiti. accendebat dolorem eorum Monobazus, quem..."