Both Uses of "siege" in "The Iliad by Homer (translated by: Lang, Leaf, & Myers)"

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Both Uses

siege
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The Iliad by Homer (translated by: Lang, Leaf, & Myers)
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BOOK I. How Agamemnon and Achilles fell out at the siege of Troy; and Achilles withdrew himself from battle, and won from Zeus a pledge that his wrong should be avenged on Agamemnon and the Achaians.†
Book 1 *
But around the other city were two armies in siege with glittering arms.†
Book 18

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Definitions:

(1) (siege)
a military tactic in which a fortified place is surrounded and isolated while it is attacked over time

or:

any prolonged attack, effort, or period of trouble
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)