impense petere aliquid ab aliquo, or followed by ut (to pray earnestly): flagitare, or efflagitare ab aliquo, or aliquem aliquid (to demand). To importune anybody constantly, alicujus aures obsidere (to lay siege, as it were, to his ears, but implying that no other is listened to; Liv., 40, 20, extr.); instare alicui de aliqua re (to press him); fatigare aliquem precibus, followed by ut (to weary with prayers); auribus alicujus abuti; assiduis precibus aliquid exigere (when anything has been promised): to importune anybody unmercifully, surdas alicui orando reddere aures (Ter., Heaut. 2, 3, 89). To importune anybody not to do anything, deprecari aliquem, or deprecari aliquem insistere, ne quid faciat.