Both Uses of
siege
in
The Iliad by Homer (translated by: Lang, Leaf, & Myers)
- 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
Definition:
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
or:
any prolonged attack, effort, or period of trouble