Note 1 — X. Virtues and Vices
H. W. (Henry William) Auden translation
"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.