To be in. Insumus. Lucr. Tristis seueritas inest in vultu. Tere. There is in his countenaunce a sadnes or grauitie. Inest in amore fructus. Cicer. There is a fruit and commoditie in loue. In ipsis inest causa cur diligãtur. C. There is in them a cause why, &c. Inest pictura in hac tabula. Ter. Quicquid hîc inest, reperi. Plau. Whatsoeuer is in this. Thesaurum hîc ego inesse rcor. Plau. -multa in homine Signa insunt, ex quibus coniectura facilè fit. &c. Ter. Inest amoris macula huic homini in pectore. Plaut. Columbis inest quidam gloriæ intellectus. Plini. Culuers haue a certaine vnderstanding or sence of glorie. Inest nobis spes. Plan. We haue an hope.

I. Lit.: meo patri torulus inerit aureus sub petaso, Plaut. Am. prol. 144: nummi octingenti aurei in marsupio infuerunt, id. Rud. 5, 2, 26: nec digitis anulus ullus inest, Ov. F 4, 658: comae insunt capiti, id. Am. 1, 14, 32: inerant lunaria fronti cornua, id. M. 9, 687.—

II. Trop., of abstract things, to be contained in, to be in, to belong or appertain to.

(a). With in: superstitio, in qua inest inanis timor deorum, Cic. N. D. 1, 42: imagines divinitate praeditas inesse in universitate rerum, id. ib. 1, 43: in vita nihil insit, nisi, etc., id. Fam. 5, 15: vitium aliquod inesse in moribus, id. Off. 1, 37, 13.—

(b). With dat.: quibus artibus prudentia major inest, Cic. Off. 1, 2: cui virile ingenium inest, Sall. C. 20, 11: huic homini non minor veritas inerat, id. ib. 23, 2: tarda solet magnis rebus inesse fides, Ov. H. 17, 130.—

(g). Absol.: inest tamen aliquid, quod, etc., Cic. Phil. 11, 1: praecipue pedum pernicitas inerat, Liv. 9, 16: inerat contemptor animus, Sall. J. 64, 1: inerat conscientia, derisui fuisse nuper falsum e Germania triumphum, Tac. Agr. 39.