Both Uses
siege
in
A Grace Given in Sorrow, translated by Fitzgerald
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- When I cast lots among them, my lot fell to join the siege against Troy citadel.†
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- Then gods out of the sky sent you this bitterness: the years of siege, the battles and the losses.†
Definitions:
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(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)