The corpus record — Latin

obsessor

obsessor · m

one who sits, stays, abides

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 6 2 · 1.49/10k
Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k
Historiae 4 · 0.78/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 1 · 0.66/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 1 · 0.62/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 3 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

obsessor — Lewis & Short

obsessor, ōris, m.id.,

I one who sits, stays, abides in a place; a frequenter, haunter.

I In gen. (only ante-class. and poet.): hoc ego fui hodie solus obsessor fori, sai in the forum alone, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 18: vivarum aquarum (of a water-snake), Ov. F. 2, 259.—

II In partic., milit., a besieger, invester, blockader: obsessor curiae, Cic. Dom. 5, 13: Luceriae, Liv. 9, 15, 3: plus pavoris obsessis quam obsessoribus intulit, Tac. H. 3, 73.

In the wild

obsessor Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.9.15.3
obsessorum Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 6 p3
obsessor Plautus, Pseudolus 3.2
obsessor Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 p15
obsessor Cicero, De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 13
obsessor Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 5.310

6 of 18 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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