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obest

obest is a Latin form of obsum, meaning “be in the way, hinder, harm (+dat.)”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 35 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone 34: … ui vivo Clodio labefactari non poterat mortuo denique temptari coeptus est. non modo igitur nihil prodest sed obest etiam Clodi mors Miloni.

All forms of obsum (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.