temptaveritis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tempto, temptare, temptavi, temptatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
test, try; urge; worry; bribe;
pl. futperf. act. ind. 2ndpl. perf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
Liber X
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Etruriam pulsi petierunt et, quod legationibus nequiquam saepe temptaverant, id se tanto agmine armatorum mixtis terrore precibus acturos..."FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...gnaritatis locorum occultam fugam sparsi, [pars] globis eruptionem temptavere. Perpernam forte cognoscit mulio redemptoris. Vbi multa nefanda esca..."