insistier
Dictionary entries
- Entry →insisto, insistere, institi, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
stand/tread upon, stand, stop; press on, persevere (with); pursue, set about;
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
Poenulus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...iubes. MIL. Quid tu mihi testis? quin tu insistis fortiter? aliqua Fortuna fuerit adiutrix tibi. AGOR. Incipere multost..."
Liber Septimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...super ora uident; iam lubrica tabo frena, nec insisti madidus dat temo, rotaeque sanguine difficiles, et tardior ungula..."Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...duceret in Asiam. Tum Africanus fratri: 'iter, quod insistis, L. Scipio, ego quoque approbo; sed totum id uertitur..."