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obsessum

obsessum is a Latin form of obsideo, meaning “besiege, blockade; occupy, beset”. It is the perfect passive participle accusative singular masculine.

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.80: … eret? tu enim neque in litteris quas Neroni mittis, neque in testimonio causam tanti tumultus ostendis ullam. obsessum te dicis, ignem adlatum, sarmenta circumdata, lictorem tuum occisum esse dicis, prodeundi tibi in publicum po …

Lucan, Civil War 3.350: Obsessum Poeno gessit quod Marte Saguntum.

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.