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obstruo

against; to build, block

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Where it lives

Pausanias 1 · 11.34/10k
Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 2 · 3.59/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k
De Fato 1 · 2.02/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
Apologeticum 3 · 1.5/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k

Densest 12 of 49 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ob-strŭo — Lewis & Short

ob-strŭo (opstr-), xi, ctum, 3,

I v. a., to build before or against; to build, block, or wall up; to stop up, barricade, render impassable (class.; cf. obsaepio, claudo, oppilo).

I Lit.: validum pro diruto obstruentes murum, Liv. 38, 29: frontem castrorum auxiliis, id. 5, 1.—Esp., to build before so as to obstruct the light: obstructae fenestrae, Varr. R. R. 1, 4: FENESTRAS OPSTRVITO, Lex. Puteol. ap. Grut. 207, 2: luminibus alicujus, Cic. Dom. 44: jus luminum obstruendorum redimere, to purchase permission of a neighbor to build so as to obstruct his light, Inscr. Guarin. Comment. in Vet. Monument. 1, p. 64: portas, Caes. B. C. 1, 27: valvas aedis. Nep. Paus. 5: aditus, Cic. Brut. 4, 16: flumina, Caes. B. C. 3, 48: aquarum venas, Plin. 31, 3, 28, § 49: saxa, placed in the way, Ov. M. 3, 570: cujus aures morbus obstruxit, has stopped up, made deaf, Sen. Ben. 3, 17, 2: os obstruere, to close the mouth, to make silent, Vulg. Psa. 62, 12; id. Rom. 3, 19.—

II Trop., to stop up, hinder, impede, obstruct: Catonis luminibus obstruxit haec posteriorum quasi exaggerata altius oratio, was a hinderance to, Cic. Brut. 17, 66: viri deus obstruit aures, stops, renders deaf, inexorable, Verg. A. 4, 440: perfugia improborum, shuts off, Cic. Sull. 28, 79: cognitionem difficultatibus, to impede, obstruct, id. Ac. 2, 3, 7: mentes, Tac. H. 3, 21.—

b Intr., to be in the way: si officiens signis mons obstruet altus, Cic. Arat. 44.

In the wild

obstruxerunt Cornelius Nepos, Pausanias 5
obstruxisse Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.12.8
obstruite Cicero, Pro P. Sulla 79
obstructis Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 4.3.13
obstruetur Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi 9.4.4
obstrui Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 5.50.5

6 of 85 attestations shown.

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