insidiari
Dictionary entries
- Entry →insidior, insidiari, insidiatus sum:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
lie in wait (to rob/assault; lie in ambush; make treacherous attack (on); plot;; lay traps; act to catch person out; wait and watch; be on lookout (for); lurk;
pres. infin. - Entry →insidio, insidiare, insidiavi, insidiatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
lie in wait (to rob/assault; lie in ambush; make treacherous attack (on); plot;; lay traps; act to catch person out; wait and watch; be on lookout (for); lurk;
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
- C
Phocion
Cornelius Nepos
"...summum esset imperium populi et Nicanorem, Cassandri praefectum, insidiari Piraeo Atheniensium a Dercylo moneretur idemque postularet, ut provideret..." - C
Datames
Cornelius Nepos
"...vitavit. Sicut, cum ei nuntiatum esset quosdam sibi insidiari, qui in amicorum erant numero. De quibus quod inimici..." - G
Titus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...verum quandoque et ab alio; sicut evenit. Fratrem insidiari sibi non desinentem, sed paene ex professo sollicitantem exercitus..." - M
XIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...cibos quidem pertinet, divites viderint. his animalibus aliquis insidiari potuit, et insidiari qua re mella facerent, haec pestiferis..." - M
In Catilinam II
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...vero quis ferre possit, inertes homines fortissimis viris insidiari, stultissimos prudentissimis, ebriosos sobriis, dormientis vigilantibus? qui mihi accubantes..." - M
In Catilinam I
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...quod saepe iam dixi, secernantur a nobis; desinant insidiari domi suae consuli, circumstare tribunal praetoris urbani, obsidere..." - T
Liber XXXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...bella uera uirtute unquam gessisse. In conloquiis insidiari et captare; in bello non congredi aequo campo neque signis..."
