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
Phocion
Cornelius Nepos
"...summum esset imperium populi et Nicanorem, Cassandri praefectum, insidiari Piraeo Atheniensium a Dercylo moneretur idemque postularet, ut provideret..."Datames
Cornelius Nepos
"...vitavit. Sicut, cum ei nuntiatum esset quosdam sibi insidiari, qui in amicorum erant numero. De quibus quod inimici..."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..."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..."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..."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..."Liber XXXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...bella uera uirtute unquam gessisse. In conloquiis insidiari et captare; in bello non congredi aequo campo neque signis..."
