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obsessor

obsessor, a frequenter, haunter, resident

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obsessores Noun: masculine nominative plural, Noun: masculine vocative plural, Noun: masculine accusative plural of obsessor

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obsessor, ōris, m. [obsideo], one who sits, stays, abides in a place; a frequenter, haunter.
  • I In gen. (only ante-class. and poet.): hoc ego fui hodie solus obsessor fori, sat in the forum alone, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 18 (807): vivarum aquarum (of a water-snake), Ov. F. 2, 259.—
  • II In partic., milit., a besieger, invester, blockader: obsessor curiae, Cic. Dom. 5, 13: Luceriae, Liv. 9, 15, 3: plus pavoris obsessis quam obsessoribus intulit, Tac. H. 3, 73.

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