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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• siege:
      1. 1. oppugnātio (most gen. and comprehensive term, but implying active attack of a place): concerning s.s of towns, (as a branch of the military art), de oppidorum o., Cic. de Or. 1, 48, 210: Liv.: to raise a s., o. dimittere, Caes. B. G. 7, 17; omittere, id. B. C. 3. 24 (obsessionem o.): relinquere, Tac. A. 15, 16. Also the verb oppugno may often expr. the subs.: the s. of Saguntum began ..., S. oppugnari coeptum est, Liv. 21, 15 the s. of Saguntum had already begun, S. jam oppugnabatur, ib. C. 7.
      2. 2. obsĭdio, obsessio (which denote sitting down before a place and investing it without active attack). to compel an enemy to raise the s. of a place, (urbem) obsidione liberare, Caes. B. G. 4, 19: v. blockade.
      3. 3. later, obsĭdium, in same sense: Tac.
      4. 4. circumsessio (hostile investment: rare): Cic. Phr.: to lay s. to, oppugnare: more fully, (urbem) operibus oppugnare, Liv. 37, 5; [hardly oppugnationem inferre in this sense, though it may be used with non-milit. meaning: cf. Cic. Coel. 9, init.], obsidēre (v. to blockade): circumsedēre (to invest), Liv. 21, 10. Relating to s.s:--(1.) oppugnātōrius (serving for attack of towns): I have now to speak of s. works, restat mihi de oppugnatoriis rebus (dicere), Vitr. 10, 12 (18). (2.) obsĭdiōnālis, e: esp. in phr. corona obsidionalis (crown given to a general for saving a city from s. or blockade), Gell. 5, 6.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• SIEGE
obsessio: obsidio: circumsessio: conclusio (a shutting in, blockade; obsessio also figuratively. ☞ Obsidium is not found in classical prose): oppugnatio (a storming; ☞ not to be confounded with expugnatio; i. e., a taking by storm). Of or belonging to a siege, obsidionalis; oppugnatorius: a protracted siege, longinqua obsidio; diuturna conclusio: to make preparation for a siege, administrare quae ad obsidionem or oppugnationem pertinent: to commence a siege, obsidionem or oppugnationem loco infene; oppugnationem incipere (☞ obsidia urbium capessere, Tac., Ann., 12, 15, extr., is poetical): to lay siege to, obsidere; circum sedere; obsidionem (urbi) inferre; in obsidione habere or tenere; obsidione claudere, premere; operibus cingere; operibus claudere omnique commeatu privare (all these, to shut in, blockade, περιπροσκαθῆσθαι; the first two, also, figuratively); oppugnare; oppugnationepremere; opera (urbi) admovere (to storm, πολιορκεῖν, προσβάλλειν); circumsistere (figuratively, to lay siege to anybody): to lay siege to on all sides, corona cingere, circumdare; corona (moenia) aggredi; circumvallare (to surround with a line of circumvallation a town, etc.; the latter also an enemy): to maintain a siege, in obsidione urbis perseverare: to protract a siege, obsidionem in longius trahere; haerere circa muros urbis: to raise a siege, obsidionem (oppugnationem) omittere or relinquere; obsidione (oppugnatione) desistere: ab oppugnatione discedere; oppido abscedere: to deliver or relieve from a siege, obsidione liberare or solvere; (ex) obsidione eximere: to endure or stand a siege, obsidionem tolerare, ferre, pati: to take a town by siege, urbem obsidione capere; obsidione expugnare oppidum: after a long and fruitless siege they retired from the citadel, ab arce, cum diu nequidquam oppugnata esset, recessum est: the town was taken after a siege of seven months, urbs septimo mense, quam oppugnari coepta est, capta est (Curt., 4, 4, 19): to turn a siege into a blockade, consilia ab oppugnanda urbe in obsidendam vertere.