impendere alicui or alicui rei (to hang over in a threatening manner; PROP. and IMPROP., alicui or alicui rei; PROP., as saxum Tantalo; gladius alicujus cervicibus; and IMPROP., terrores, pericula, bellum, etc.; IMPROP., also, impendere in aliquem; e.g., terrores in me): instare (to be at hand; also, absolutely, instare jam plane, to be close at hand): imminere (PROP.; e.g., collis urbi; tumulus ipsis moenibus, and IMPROP.; principally of enemies, nations, etc., that seem to hang over an object in a threatening way; also of death, and, generally, ea quae imminent; but not of danger, war, etc., in prose writers, till Quintilian and Suet.).