temptabatur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tempto, temptare, temptavi, temptatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
test, try; urge; worry; bribe;
sg. imperf. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XXXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Tempe statiuis positis, ut quisque locus ab hoste temptabatur praesidia per occasiones submittebat. Sub idem fere tempus..."BELLUM IUGURTHINUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...satis providere non poterat, quippe etiam frumenti inopia temptabatur, quia Numidae pabulo pecoris magis quam arvo student..."