insulto

insulto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a. [insilio], to spring or leap at or upon a thing, to leap, bound, jump, spring.

I.

Lit.:

fores calcibus,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 54:

floribus,

Verg. G. 4, 11:

sub armis Insultare solo,

id. ib. 3, 116:

busto,

Hor. C. 3, 3, 40:

fluctibus insultavere carinae,

Ov. M. 1, 133:

Batavi dum insultant aquis,

Tac. A. 2, 8:

rogis,

Prop. 2, 8, 20 (2, 8, b. 4. M.).—

(β).

With acc.:

nemora avia matres Insultant thiasis,

Verg. A. 7, 580.—

(γ).

Absol.: fremit aequore toto Insultans sonipes. Verg. A. 11, 599.—

II.

Trop., to behave insolently towards any one, to scoff at, revile, abuse, taunt, insult:

alicui in calamitate,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 50:

dominis,

Liv. 1, 48, 2:

alicui per contumelias,

id. 3, 62, 1:

adversis rebus eorum,

id. 36, 29, 9:

jacenti,

Ov. Tr. 2, 571:

casibus alicujus,

id. ib. 5, 8, 4.—

(β).

With acc.: multos bonos, Sall. Fragm. ap. Don. ad Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 54; Serv. Verg. A. 9, 643:

patientiam et segnitiam cujuspiam,

Tac. A. 4, 59.—

(γ).

With in and acc.:

in rem publicam,

Cic. Mil. 32:

in omnes,

id. N. D. 2, 29.—

(δ).

With abl.:

morte mea,

at my death, Prop. 3, 6 (4, 5), 24.—

(ε).

Absol.:

quippe impune se insultaturos,

Liv. 2, 45:

cernis ut insultent Rutuli,

exult, Verg. A. 10, 20.