to purchase permission of a neighbor to build so as to obstruct his light

ob-strŭo ( opstr-), xi, ctum, 3, v. a., to build before or against; to build, block, or wall up; to stop up, barricade, render impassable (class.; cf. obsaepio, claudo, oppilo).

Lit.:

validum pro diruto obstruentes murum,

Liv. 38, 29:

frontem castrorum auxiliis,

id. 5, 1.—Esp., to build before so as to obstruct the light:

obstructae fenestrae,

Varr. R. R. 1, 4:

FENESTRAS OPSTRVITO, Lex. Puteol. ap. Grut. 207, 2: luminibus alicujus,

Cic. Dom. 44: jus luminum obstruendorum redimere, to purchase permission of a neighbor to build so as to obstruct his light, Inscr. Guarin. Comment. in Vet. Monument. 1, p. 64:

portas,

Caes. B. C. 1, 27: valvas aedis. Nep. Paus. 5:

aditus,

Cic. Brut. 4, 16:

flumina,

Caes. B. C. 3, 48:

aquarum venas,

Plin. 31, 3, 28, § 49:

saxa,

placed in the way, Ov. M. 3, 570:

cujus aures morbus obstruxit,

has stopped up, made deaf, Sen. Ben. 3, 17, 2:

os obstruere,

to close the mouth, to make silent, Vulg. Psa. 62, 12; id. Rom. 3, 19.—

Trop., to stop up, hinder, impede, obstruct:

Catonis luminibus obstruxit haec posteriorum quasi exaggerata altius oratio,

was a hinderance to, Cic. Brut. 17, 66:

viri deus obstruit aures,

stops, renders deaf, inexorable, Verg. A. 4, 440:

perfugia improborum,

shuts off, Cic. Sull. 28, 79:

cognitionem difficultatibus,

to impede, obstruct, id. Ac. 2, 3, 7:

mentes,

Tac. H. 3, 21.—

Intr., to be in the way:

si officiens signis mons obstruet altus,

Cic. Arat. 44.

ob-strŭo ( opstr-), xi, ctum, 3, v. a., to build before or against; to build, block, or wall up; to stop up, barricade, render impassable (class.; cf. obsaepio, claudo, oppilo).

Lit.:

validum pro diruto obstruentes murum,

Liv. 38, 29:

frontem castrorum auxiliis,

id. 5, 1.—Esp., to build before so as to obstruct the light:

obstructae fenestrae,

Varr. R. R. 1, 4:

FENESTRAS OPSTRVITO, Lex. Puteol. ap. Grut. 207, 2: luminibus alicujus,

Cic. Dom. 44: jus luminum obstruendorum redimere, to purchase permission of a neighbor to build so as to obstruct his light, Inscr. Guarin. Comment. in Vet. Monument. 1, p. 64:

portas,

Caes. B. C. 1, 27: valvas aedis. Nep. Paus. 5:

aditus,

Cic. Brut. 4, 16:

flumina,

Caes. B. C. 3, 48:

aquarum venas,

Plin. 31, 3, 28, § 49:

saxa,

placed in the way, Ov. M. 3, 570:

cujus aures morbus obstruxit,

has stopped up, made deaf, Sen. Ben. 3, 17, 2:

os obstruere,

to close the mouth, to make silent, Vulg. Psa. 62, 12; id. Rom. 3, 19.—

Trop., to stop up, hinder, impede, obstruct:

Catonis luminibus obstruxit haec posteriorum quasi exaggerata altius oratio,

was a hinderance to, Cic. Brut. 17, 66:

viri deus obstruit aures,

stops, renders deaf, inexorable, Verg. A. 4, 440:

perfugia improborum,

shuts off, Cic. Sull. 28, 79:

cognitionem difficultatibus,

to impede, obstruct, id. Ac. 2, 3, 7:

mentes,

Tac. H. 3, 21.—

Intr., to be in the way:

si officiens signis mons obstruet altus,

Cic. Arat. 44.