obstem
Dictionary entries
- Entry →obsto, obstare, obstiti, -:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
oppose, hinder; (w/DAT);
sg. pres. act. subj. 1st
Examples
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...litteras scis et ego. Ne quaestibus tuis obstem, aliud aliquid promittam; alioqui mille causae quotidie nos collident..."Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...Calydona, morerne? excedam tectis? an, si nihil amplius, obstem? quid si me, Meleagre, tuam memor esse sororem forte..."