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insidiis

insidiis is a Latin form of insidiae, meaning “ambush; plot, trap, treachery”. It is the ablative plural feminine noun.

Found 271 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.13.4: … ipsos despiceret. Se ita a patribus maioribusque suis didicisse, ut magis virtute contenderent quam dolo aut insidiis niterentur.

Ovid, Heroides 20.66: Insidiis esto capta puella meis.

All forms of insidiae (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.