tempto
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tempto, temptare, temptavi, temptatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
test, try; urge; worry; bribe;
sg. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Phormio
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...quasi non nosses, temptatum advenis. {De.} ego autem tempto? {Ge.} (Stilpo.) {Ph.} atque adeo quid mea? Stilpost..."
Liber Quartus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...cantu Latio sacravi, Pindare, Thebas. Maximo carmen tenuare tempto; nunc ab intonsa capienda myrto serta, nunc maior sitis..."Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...quid ad caelestia ritus exigere humanos diversaque foedera tempto? aut nostro vetitus de corde fugabitur ardor..."Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...dextera librat dum mea, dum digitos amentis addere tempto, lumina deflexi. revocataque rursus eodem rettuleram: medio (mirum..."Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...addere tantis dotibus et meritum, faveant modo numina, tempto: ut mea sit servata mea virtute, paciscor.' accipiunt legem..."