circumsedeo

circum-sedeō sēdī, sessus, ēre,

to sit around, surround, besiege, blockade, invest, encompass, beset: Mutinam: te in castello: oppidum, S.: in castello circumsederi, N.: opem circumsessis ferre, L.— Fig., to surround, beset, besiege: a quibus me circumsessum videtis: circumsessum blanditiis, L.: circumsederi urbem ab invidiā finitimorum, L.