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
- T
Liber XXXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Tempe statiuis positis, ut quisque locus ab hoste temptabatur praesidia per occasiones submittebat. Sub idem fere tempus..." - G
BELLUM IUGURTHINUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...satis providere non poterat, quippe etiam frumenti inopia temptabatur, quia Numidae pabulo pecoris magis quam arvo student..."