The corpus record — Latin

obsido

v. a., to beset, invest, besiege, blockade (mostly poet.): ne auriculam obsidat caries, ne vermiculique, Lucil. ap…

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Where it lives

Timoleon 1 · 12.08/10k
Epaminondas 1 · 5.99/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 10 · 5.91/10k
Maximini Duo 3 · 5.53/10k
Hannibal 1 · 4.89/10k
De Bello Africo 6 · 4.61/10k
Opilius Macrinus 1 · 4.02/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 31 5 · 3.96/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 6 · 3.73/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 6 5 · 3.72/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 43 2 · 3.49/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 5 · 3.45/10k

Densest 12 of 114 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ob-sīdo — Lewis & Short

ob-sīdo, ĕre,

I v. a., to beset, invest, besiege, blockade (mostly poet.): ne auriculam obsidat caries, ne vermiculique, Lucil. ap. Non. 21, 25: vias oculorum, Lucr. 4, 351: certas partes, id. 4, 1092: pontem, Sall. C. 45, 2 Kritz N. cr.: portas, Verg. A. 9, 159: Italos fines, to occupy, take possession of, id. ib. 7, 334: praedator cupit immensos obsidere campos, Tib. 2, 3, 41: Troica moenia, Cat. 64, 345.

In the wild

obsidere Tacitus, Historiae 3.56
obsidesque Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 8.46.2
obsidemur Tertullian, Apologeticum 7.4
obside Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.162
obsidenda Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.37.33.2
obsidere Sallust, Catilina 27

6 of 396 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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