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• n  an enemy who lays siege to your position
• n  an energetic petitioner

• For 73 days the city that had never yet fallen to a besieger had fought off attack after attack.
• When they did, they often found that a determined besieger had got there before them.
• There should be a good sexual joke here -- the tireless besieger besieged, sacked and pillaged -- but the author won't let matters play that way.