insidient
Dictionary entries
- 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;
pl. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- M
Liber IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...conectio: "haec si ut exposui gesta sunt, iudices, insidiator superatus est, vi victa vis vel potius oppressa virtute..." - M
Liber III
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...positae, iudicabo conflixisse causam, sed ubi totis viribus insidiator Clodius ideoque iure interfectus ostenditur. Et hoc est quod..." - M
In Catilinam II
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...esse moriendum. Nullus est portis custos, nullus insidiator viae; si qui exire volunt, conivere possum; qui vero..." - T
Liber XL
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...eadem petitus insidiis audio, quae latro atque insidiator. non nequiquam isti unum Demetrium filium te habere, me subditum..." - T
Liber XXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...atque honore potuerit uinci, cum inter liberatores patriae insidiator ipse libertatis creatus esset praetor. sed animos eis regios..."