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obest, as we say ‘is in the way.’ So obstare is used of a person whose conduct gives offence, Pers.v. 163, “an siccis dedecus obstem cognatis”, and of a thing which creates dislike, Virg. Aen.VI. 64, “quibus obstitit Ilium et ingens gloria Dardaniae”. She cannot bear to think of her mother's grief, though, as she reflects, it is misdirected.
Charles Simmons. Metamorphoseon XIII. xiv. The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books XIII. and XIV. Edited, with introduction, analysis, and notes by Charles Simmons. New York. Macmillan. 1899.
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