insisto
Dictionary entries
- Entry →insisto, insistere, institi, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
stand/tread upon, stand, stop; press on, persevere (with); pursue, set about;
sg. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...super stratorum corporum strages, palpitantibus adhuc cadaveribus alacer insisto? virtutis sunt ista, cum hostis contigit; pax est, quae..."Metamorphoses V
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...nescio quod medio sensi sub gurgite murmur territaque insisto propioris margine ripae. "quo properas, Arethusa?" suis Alpheos..."