The corpus record — Latin

obsessio

obsessio · f

a blocking up, besieging, encompassing, a blockade

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Pro C. Rabirio Perduellionis Reo Ad Quirites 1 · 2.82/10k
Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 1 · 1.47/10k
Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
Pro L. Murena 1 · 0.95/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
De bello Gallico 4 · 0.78/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 1 · 0.66/10k
De Bello Civili 1 · 0.31/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

obsessĭo — Lewis & Short

obsessĭo, ōnis, f.obsideo,

I a blocking up, besieging, encompassing, a blockade of a place (class.): obsessio templorum, Cic. Dom. 3, 5: militaris viae, id. Pis. 17, 40: castrorum, Suet. Caes. 58: obsessionem alicuius omittere, Caes. B. C. 3, 24 fin.

In the wild

obsessionis Cicero, Pro L. Murena 33
obsessione Cicero, De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 5
obsessionem Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 8.14.1
obsessionem Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 10.33.4
obsessio Cicero, In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 40
obsessionis Cicero, Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 6

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

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.