insilite
Dictionary entries
- Entry →insilio, insilire, insilivi, -:
Verb · 4th conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
come/leap upon/in; leap/spring up/at; attack/throw oneself upon; bound; mount;
pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Liber Octavus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...misit terga prius, mox attonita cum virgine puppem insilit ac rapta victor consistit in hasta. Interea patrias saevus..."Liber Sextus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...simul obvius hastam pectus in adversum ~gleacit~ alipedemque insilit excusso victor duce. risit ab alta nube pater prensisque..."
Liber Secundus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...rura, nec minus Ogygias eadem dea turbida Thebas insilit: haec totis perfundit moenia pennis Labdaciumque ducem praemissae consona..."Metamorphoses XII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...leto aut vacat aut curat tergoque Bienoris alti insilit, haut solito quemquam portare nisi ipsum, opposuitque genu costis..."Metamorphoses XI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...aequoris iras frangit et incursus quae praedelassat aquarum. insilit huc, mirumque fuit potuisse: volabat percutiensque levem modo natis..."Metamorphoses VIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...amplexa recurvam per freta longa trahar.' Vix dixerat, insilit undis consequiturque rates faciente cupidine vires Cnosiacaeque haeret comes..."Liber VI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...tantam multitudinem, nedum armatam, sustineri posse, in equum insilit et ante signa obversus in aciem ordines interequitans: "Quae..."Liber IX
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...Maxime puer, qui primus expertus est, adnatat nanti, insilit tergo, fertur referturque, agnosci se amari putat, amat ipse..."