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obsum

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Where it lives

Ad Uxorem 3 · 7.22/10k
Pro Cn. Plancio 8 · 6.87/10k
Ad Scapulam 1 · 6.7/10k
Diadumenus Antoninus 1 · 5.99/10k
Datames 1 · 5.49/10k
Alcibiades 1 · 4.95/10k
Remedia Amoris 2 · 3.81/10k
Clodius Albinus 1 · 3.7/10k
Tristia 8 · 3.51/10k
Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 2 · 2.94/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 6 · 2.89/10k

Densest 12 of 76 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ob-sum — Lewis & Short

ob-sum, obfui or offui, obesse (old form of

I fut. obescet, oberit vel aderit, Paul. ex Fest. p. 188 Müll.), v. n., to be against, be prejudicial to; to hinder, hurt, injure; opp. to prodesse (cf.: officio, noceo, injuriam facio; class.): Ty. Nunc falsa prosunt. Heg. At tibi oberunt, Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 48; Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 13; cf.: men obesse, illos prodesse, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 31, 66 (Trag. v. 84 Vahl.); and: qui (pudor) non modo non obesset ejus orationi, sed etiam probitatis commendatione prodesset, Cic. de Or. 1, 26, 122: subicimus id. quod nobis adjumento futurum sit, aut offuturum illis e contrario. Auct. Her. 4, 23, 33: obsunt auctoribus artes, Ov. M. 7, 562: ne prodigus obsit, Verg. G. 4, 89.—With a subject-clause: nec, dum degrandinat, obsit Agresti fano supposuisse pecus, Ov. F. 4, 755: nihil obest dicere, Cic. Fam. 9, 13, 4.

In the wild

obest Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 40 p11
obsum Cicero, Letters to Atticus 2.1.6
obsint Cicero, Letters to Atticus 11.22.1
obesset Cicero, De Oratore 2.296
obfuit Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.94
obfutura Cicero, Philippicae 12.7

6 of 184 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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