conabantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →conor, conari, conatus sum:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
attempt/try/endeavor, make an effort; exert oneself; try to go/rise/speak;
pl. imperf. ind. 3rd
Examples
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...Alii autem aut restrictis manibus anulos de pavimento conabantur tollere, aut posito genu cervices post terga flectere..."Liber IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...tamen exanimatae terrore, hostium adventu percepto, excitare Antonium conabantur, nomen inclamabant, frustra a cervicibus tollebant, blandius alia..."Liber VII
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...eruptionem ex oppido pluribus portis summa vi facere conabantur. Quare ad haec rursus opera addendum Caesar putavit..."Liber III
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...pugnabatur, et magna multitudine naves longas occupare hostes conabantur; quarum erant L auxilio missae ad Pompeium proelioque..."Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...aduersus tale machinationis genus parare aut comminisci oppidani conabantur; omnis spes in armis et audacia erat; eruptionibus crebris..."Liber XXXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...loco hostes, simul per patefactum ruina iter inrumpere conabantur. nec multum afuit quin qua intenderant penetrarent; sed tardauit..."Liber IX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...loco posuerunt lacessentesque proelio Romanos avertere ab obsidione conabantur. Eo intentius dictator in moenia hostium versus id bellum..."Liber VI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...civitate aedificando occupata contiones suas frequentare legibus agrariis conabantur. Ostentabatur in spem Pomptinus ager, tum primum post accisas..."