Meaning of obex | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a bolt, bar; a barrier, wall
   declension-3
2. a hindrance, impediment, obstacle
   declension-3

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“unde tremor terris, qua vi maria alta tumescant”

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“Hinc tēla accipiunt arcēs, ac rōbora portīs / et fīdōs certant obicēs accersere silva; / circumdant fossās.”

1934 translation by J. D. Duff The citadels too are stored with missiles; men hasten to bring from the forest oak-timber for their gates and trusty bars, and dig moats around.

“Nec spēs obsessīs ultrā reserāta tuērī / moenia: convertunt gressūs recipīque precantīs / (īnfandum) exclūdunt sociōs, dum cardine versō / obnīxī torquent obicēs, mūnīmina sēra.”

1934 translation by J. D. Duff The besieged could no longer hope to defend walls already unbarred. They beat a retreat to the town, and (horrible to tell) shut out their comrades as they begged to be admitted: the hinges turned and the bolts were forcibly thrust home, when such precautions were too late.

“proferat hic veterum thalamos discrimine partos Graecia, ni pudor est: reparatis Pisa quadrigis suscitet Oenomaum, natae quem fraude cadentem”

1936 translation by W. B. Anderson Here let Greece bring forward, unless she be ashamed, those marriages of her ancients which were won by peril. Let Pisa bring back her four-horse chariot and revive Oenomaus, who fell by a daughter’s guile, when the waxen linch-pins betrayed him, unloosing the axles

“Fit fluvius pereunte lacu: tum redditur alveo Pristina riparum conclusis fluctibus obex, Donec dividuum spargens per devia finem”

1997 translation by George W. Shea As the lake it formed disappears, it becomes once more a river. Then the ancient barrier of its banks is restored to its channel, and its waves are confined, until finally its divided mouth is scattered over distant wastes as it runs in seven streams to the open sea.

“…, et quique intermissis diebus alteram noctem subnubilam nactus obstructis omnibus castrorum portis et ad impediendum obicibus obiectis tertia inita vigilia silentio exercitum eduxit et se in antiquas munitiones recipit.”

…, five days after, he (Pompey) found another dark and cloudy night where, the camp's entrances walled up and, to make their forcing even harder, obstacles having been laid, he led stealthly his host out at the third watch (around midnight) and made back to his previous defense works.

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