insidia

Definitiones

1. ambush
   declension-1, plural-normally
2. artifice, plot, snare, stratagem
   declension-1, plural-normally

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“ubi vincere apertē nōn datur, īnsidiās armaque tēcta parant”

Where [the means] to conquer openly [or, in open battle] is not given, they prepare ambushes and hidden arms.

“Etenim iam diū, Patrēs Cōnscrīptī, in hīs perīculīs coniūrātiōnis īnsidiīsque versāmur, […] .”

And indeed for a long time now, Conscript Fathers, we have been occupied with [these] dangers and plots of the conspiracy, […] .

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