conabor
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;
sg. fut. ind. 1st
Examples
de Constantia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...possit, alterum sine altero non possit. Quod dico conabor facere manifestum. Possum pedes mouere ut non curram: currere..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...illa haerere tabula, quae Troiae halosin ostendit. Itaque conabor opus versibus pandere: Iam decuma maestos inter ancipites metus..."