To sit on: to sit in: to be in: to estege: to abide in a place. Insidere equo. Liu. To sit on horsebacke. Toro insidere. Ouid. Insidere in sella. Plin. To sit in his chasre or on a stoole. Insider pedibus dolor. Plin. iun. The paine resteih in the feete. Insident febres, Plin, un. Feners he setled in them. Insidet penitus cogitatio. Cioe. The cogitation is setled in my mind. Insidet crimen in animo Cicer. The accusation or crime is sunke into my mind and wil not be sorgotten. Delyderiû in sedit nobis. Lucr. There resteth in vs a desire. Hic feruor animi inoeterauit, & tanqnam in venis medullisqúe insedit. Cic. This vehemencie of mind is growne by coutinuance and deepely setled, as it were in the bomels of nature. Insedit pax. Cic. Ita penitus insedit ista suspicio, vt, &c. Cic. This suspition is so deepely sunke or setled into your mind, that, &c. Insidere portentis. Plin. To fit vpon monstrous brastes. Quod in animo eius insederit. Cic. Insidebat in eius merite species cloquentiæ. Cicero. There was rooted or setled in his mind a certaine image of eloquence. Macula quæ penitus iam insedit, atque inueterauit in Pop. Rom. nomine. Cicer. The reproch that was nowe tooted and by long time deepely secled in the name of the people of Nome. Insidet in memoria mea penitus. Cic. It sticketh fast, &c. Insidere. Liu. To beset: to besiege: to rest or abide in: to lye in wayte. Quingentis militibus arceru insedit. Liu. He kept the Eas. tle with fiue hutidred soldioures. Agros vacuos insedere. Tac. They resled or abode in. Syloarum anfractus cæcis insederat armis. Silius. Hee saye in waite or ambushment priuily with soldionres in the crooked. pathes of the woodes. Aram insederant. Tac. Arcem capitolij insedit. Ta. He kept the Eapitol with a garrison. Ioppe insidet collem præiacente saxo. Plin. Ioppe standeth or is situate on an hil with a rocke lying before it. Effugia insederaot. Tacit They were planted in all the narrow straites wherchy their enimies should passe or scape. Insidere itinera. Liu. To lie in waite in waies by which mÊ must passe. Insidere locum. Liu. To keepe a place. Syluis insedit miquis. Vir. He lay in mayte in. Mohbus villarum insidere. Tac.

I. Neutr.

A. Lit.: equo, Liv. 7, 6, 5: curru insidens, Sen. Med. 29: solo, Suet. Aug. 82.—

2. To settle: ubi Lydia quondam jugis insedit Etruscis, Verg. A. 8, 479.—

B. Trop., to be seated, fixed, or stamped in, to adhere to: cum in locis semen insedit, Cic. N. D. 2, 51, 128: longus morbus, cum penitus insedit, when it has become deeply seated, Cels. 3, 1: insidens capulo manus, i. e. keeping firm hold of the handle, Tac. A. 2, 21: nihil quisquam unquam, me audiente, egit orator, quod non in memoria mea penitus insederit, remained thoroughly fixed in my mind, Cic. de Or. 2, 28, 122: insidebat in ejus mente species eloquentiae, was firmly stamped on his mind, id. Or. 5, 18: voluptas, quae penitus in omni sensu implicata insidet, id. Leg. 1, 17, 47: cum hic fervor concitatioque animi inveteraverit, et tamquam in venis medullisque insederit, has firmly seated itself, id. Tusc. 4, 10, 24.—

II. Act., to sit or be situated upon, stand upon, take place upon, occupy.

A. Lit.: currum, Varr. L. L. 5, 22: Joppe insidet collem, Plin. 5, 13, 14, 69. —

B. Transf., to take possession of a place, to hold, occupy: locum, Liv. 21, 54, 3: juga, Tac. A. 2, 16: militibus arcem, Liv. 26, 44, 2: insidere vias examina infantium solebant, Plin. Pan. 26, 1: Aventinum, Liv. 9, 34, 3; 3, 50, 13; Sall. H. Fragm. 1, 9 Dietsch: medium mare, Flor. 4, 8, 2: arcem Capitolii, id. 3, 21, 7: ea loca, inhabit, Tac. A. 12, 62. — Pass.: viaeque omnes hostium praesidiis insidentur, Liv. 25, 13, 2: saltus circa insessus ab hoste, id. 7, 34, 1: per montes praesidiis nostris insessos, Tac. A. 13, 9: insessus iterum Alpibus, id. H. 3, 1: insessum diris avibus Capitolium, occupied as a perch, id. A. 12, 43.