The corpus record — Latin

obmolior

obmolior · v. dep

to push

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 33 1 · 0.87/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 1 · 0.61/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 2 · 0.27/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

ob-mōlĭor — Lewis & Short

ob-mōlĭor, ītus, 4, v. dep. (perh. not ante-Aug.).

I Lit., to push or throw up one thing before another (as a defence or obstruction): nec in promptu erat quod obmolirentur, Liv. 33, 5, 8: arborum truncos et saxa, Curt. 6, 6, 24.—

II Transf., to block up, obstruct: ad munienda et obmolienda, quae ruinis strata erant, Liv. 37, 32, 7; cf. id. 33, 5.

In the wild

obmolita Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 8.10.24
obmolirentur Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.33.5.8
obmoliuntur Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 6.6.24
obmolienda Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 p22
obmolirentur Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 33 p5
obmolienda Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.37.32.7

Where it came from

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Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.