Insidior, insidiaris insidiari Mart. To lay waite to deceiue: to practise wiles to the end to intrap or deceiue.Insidiemur apris. Mart. Let vs hunt wile vores.Vt insidietur & obseruet.Cic.That he may ly in malte and spy.Hostibus insidior.Ouid.Insidiari rcmpori.Liu.To espy time and opportinitie.Lupus insidiatus ouili. Virg
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
insĭdĭor, ātus, 1, v. dep. (act. form insidiaverint for insidiati erunt, Dig. 48, 19, 28, 11) [insidiae], to lie in ambush, lie in wait for; constr. with dat.I.Lit.: quam diu mihi, Catilina, insidiatus es, Cic. Cat. 1, 5, 11: apris, Mart. 12, 14, 10: in legatis insidiandis, Cic. Cael. 21, 51.—II.Trop.: somno maritorum, Cic. Cat. 1, 10, 26: tempori,
to watch for
,
seize upon the favorable moment
, Liv. 23, 35, 15: temporibus, to watch the changes of the times, to turn them to one's own advantage, Vell. 2, 21.