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obsidione

obsidione is a Latin form of obsidio, meaning “siege, blockade”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 150 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.19.4: … rerum causa exercitum traducere constituerat, ut Germanis metum iniceret, ut Sugambros ulcisceretur, ut Ubios obsidione liberaret, diebus omnino XVIII trans Rhenum consumptis, satis et ad laudem et ad utilitatem profectum arbitra …

Plautus, Asinaria 2.2.280: erum in óbsidione linquet, inimicum animos auxerit.

Lucan, Civil War 3.343: Obsidione paras, et vi perfringere portas:

All forms of obsidio (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.