I.an entrance through a narrow or crooked way.
I. Lit.: “Ponti,” Avien. Perieg. 397.—
II. Trop.
A. An insinuating or ingratiating one's self into the favor of others: “exordium in duas partes dividitur, in principium et insinuationem.... Insinuatio est oratio, quadam dissimulatione et circuitione obscure subiens auditoris animum,” Cic. Inv. 1, 15, 20.—
B. A notification, publication, Cod. Just. 8, 54, 32.