_vim adhibere, facere alicui_—to use violence against some one.
_vim inferre alicui_—to do violence to a person.
_vim et manus afferre alicui_ (Catil. 1. 8. 21)—to kill with violence.
_vim vi depellere_—to meet force by force.
_vi vim illatam defendere_—to meet force by force.
_insidias collocare, locare_ (Mil. 10. 27)—to set an ambuscade.
_insidias alicui parare, facere, struere, instruere, tendere_—to
waylay a person.
_aliquem in insidiis locare, collocare, ponere_—to place some one in
ambush.
_aliquem in insidias elicere, inducere_—to draw some one into an ambush.
_subsidere in insidiis_ (Mil. 19. 49)—to place oneself in ambush.
_minitari (minari) alicui mortem, crucem et tormenta, bellum_—to
threaten some one with death, crucifixion, torture, war.
_minitari alicui igni ferroque_ (Phil. 13. 9. 21)—to threaten with
fire and sword.
_denuntiare_[1] _bellum, caedem_ (Sest. 20. 46)—to threaten war,
carnage.
_minas iacere, iactare_—to use threats.
_minis uti_—to use threats.
[1] "Threaten" in the sense of to be at hand, to be imminent, is
rendered by some such word as _imminere, impendere, instare_, e.g.
_bellum imminet_. For the meaning to seem likely, to promise, cf.
_coniuratio rem publicam perversura videtur_, the conspiracy threatens
to overthrow the state.