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instat

instat is a Latin form of insto, meaning “press on, pursue; threaten, be at hand; insist”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 128 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.44.12: dum cupidius instat, in locum deiectus inferiorem concidit. Huic rursus circumvento fert subsidium Pullo,

Vergil, Aeneid 2.491: Instat vi patria Pyrrhus; nec claustra, neque ipsi

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.