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cingere d'assedio

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cìngere d'assedio (first-person singular present cìngo d'assedio, first-person singular past historic cìnsi d'assedio, past participle cìnto d'assedio, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to besiege, to lay siege to
    Synonyms: assediare, mettere l'assedio (a), porre l'assedio (a)
    • 1825, “Libro XI [Book 11]”, in Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade [Iliad], Milan: Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio, translation of Ῑ̓λιάς (Īliás) by Homer, published 1840, page 249, lines 951–955:
      [] Su l'Alféo / In arduo colle assisa è una cittade, / Trïoessa nomata [] / [] Disïosi / Di porla al fondo, la cingean d'assedio.
      Over the Alpheios, sitting upon a steep hill, is a city called Trioessa [] Eager to bring it down, they besieged it.