obsessis

obsessis is a Latin form of obsideo, meaning “besiege, blockade; occupy, beset”. It is the perfect passive participle dative plural masculine or perfect passive participle dative plural feminine or perfect passive participle dative plural neuter or perfect passive participle ablative plural masculine.

It can also be a form of obsero, “bolt, bar, fasten”.

Found 39 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.24.2: Illi, etsi propter multitudinem et veterem belli gloriam paucitatemque nostrorum se tuto dimicaturos existimabant, tamen tutius esse arbitrabantur obsessis viis commeatu intercluso sine vulnere victoria potiri,

Lucan, Civil War 4.502: Obsessis, tanti quae pignora demus amoris.

All forms of obsideo (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.