(verb) : insulto, āvi, ātum, 1, and
* A. [insilio], to spring or leap at or upon a thing, to leap, bound, jump, spring.
* 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.).
* With acc.: nemora avia matres Insultant thiasis,Verg. A. 7, 580.
* 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.
* 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.
* With in and acc.: in rem publicam,Cic. Mil. 32: in omnes,id. N. D. 2, 29.
* 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.

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