obsides

obsides is a Latin form of obses, meaning “hostage”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 174 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.9.4: Itaque rem suscipit et a Sequanis impetrat ut per fines suos Helvetios ire patiantur, obsidesque uti inter sese dent perficit: Sequani, ne itinere Helvetios prohibeant, Helvetii, ut sine maleficio et iniuria transeant.

Cicero, De Divinatione 2.115: Sed iam ad te venio, ó sancte Apollo, qui úbilicum cértum terrarum óbsides, únde superstitiósa primum saéva evasit vóx fera. tuis enim oraculis Chrysippus totum volumen implevit partim …

Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni 7.2.14: Ad quem persequendum puniendumque — vide, quantum fidei tuae credam — te ministro uti statui. Obsides, dum hoc peragis, erunt fratres tui.

All forms of obses (declension 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.