Socratos Sign in

obsideri

obsideri is a Latin form of obsideo, meaning “besiege, blockade; occupy, beset”. It is the present passive infinitive.

Found 38 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.20: … faciunt atque ita inter se per tribunos militum centurionesque atque honestissimos sui generis colloquuntur: obsideri se a Caesare, opera munitionesque prope esse perfectas; ducem suum Domitium, cuius spe atque fiducia permanse …

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.