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LNS

assideō, assidēre, assēdī, assessus

adsideō, adsidēre, adsēdī, adsessus

sedeo

verb (2^nd conjugation)

to sit by
To sit, stand, be at
to aid, assist one in the office of judge, to be an assessor
to attend upon, take care of
To be busily, assiduously engaged about
to station one's self before

Abbreviations

as-sideo (ads-, Fleck., Kayser, Rib., Merk., Halm, Weissenb.; both, K. and H.), sēdi, sessum, 2, v. n. sedeo, to sit by or near a person or thing (syn. assido). Lit. In gen.: qui apud carbones adsident, Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 48: in Tiburti forte adsedimus ego et Marcus filius, Cic. de Or. 2, 55, 224: non adsidens et attente audiens, id. Brut. 55, 200.

— Esp. To sit, stand, or be at one's side, as attendant, aid, protector; absol. or with dat.: cum lacrimans in carcere mater noctes diesque adsideret, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 43: principes Macedoniae hujus (Plancii) periculo commoti huic adsident, pro hoc laborant, id. Planc. 11 fin.: cum Pompeius P. Lentulo consuli frequens adsideret, id. Pis. 32, 80: qui (nobilium adulescentes) ibi adsidebant, Liv. 9, 46, 9: Ut assidens inplumibus pullis avis Serpentium adlapsus timet, Hor. Epod. 1, 19: adsidens foribus, Vulg. Sap. 6, 15; ib. 1 Macc. 11, 40; ib. Act. 26, 30.

—Hence, in judic. lang., t. t., to aid, assist one in the office of judge, to be an assessor (cf. assessor): rarus in tribunali Caesaris Piso, et si quando adsideret, atrox ac dissentire manifestus, Tac. A. 2, 57; Dig. 1, 22, 2; 1, 22, 3; 1, 22, 6 al.

— Of the sick, to attend upon, take care of: adsidet aegrae, Ov. H. 20, 137: Adsidet una soror, Prop. 5, 3, 41: si alius casus lecto te adflixit, habes qui Adsideat, fomenta paret, medicum roget, etc., Hor. S. 1, 1, 82; Plin. Ep. 7, 19: adsidente amantissimā uxore, Tac. Agr. 45: adsidere valetudini, id. ib.

— To be busily, assiduously engaged about a thing: litteris, Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 19: gubernaculis, to attend to, to mind, id. Pan. 81 fin.

— Transf. Of a place, to station one's self before; and more freq. in a hostile sense, to be encamped before, sit down before, besiege, blockade; constr. with dat. or acc.; also pass.: adsidere sepultae urbis ruinis, Tac. H. 3, 35: prope moenia Romana adsidere, Liv. 26, 22: moenibus adsidet hostis, Verg. Cir. 267; Liv. 23, 19; 21, 25; Curt. 4, 3; Tac. H. 2, 22 al.: cum muros adsidet hostis, Verg. A. 11, 304: adsidendo castellum, Tac. A. 6, 43: arces, Sil. 9, 623: adsidebat oppugnabatque oppidum, Gell. 7, 1, 8: Amisumque adsideri audiebat, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 830 P. (IV. 8 Gerl.): adsessos Capuae muros, Sil. 12, 453.

—* Poet., to be near one in qualities, i. e. to be like, to resemble (in prose, instead of it, accedo; opp. dissideo, q. v.): parcus Adsidet insano, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 14 (sedet stulto proximus eique simillimus est, Crucq.; cf. in Gr. ἐγγὺς εἶναί τινι.

—Acc. to Schmid the figure is drawn from the sitting together of similar classes in the theatre).