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instanti

instanti is a Latin form of insto, meaning “press on, pursue; threaten, be at hand; insist”. It is the present active participle ablative singular masculine or present active participle ablative singular feminine or present active participle ablative singular neuter or present active participle dative singular masculine.

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 11.24: … e, sed voluntariis studiis se ad rem publicam contulerunt tardentur animis, si quicquam aliud a nobis nisi de instanti bello cogitatum putabunt. quod si provinciae consulibus expetendae videntur, sicut saepe multis clarissimis v …

Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.412: parce!” ait. Instanti “discede, aut desine” dixit

All forms of insto (conjugation 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.