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
- P
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..."- P
Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...quid ad caelestia ritus exigere humanos diversaque foedera tempto? aut nostro vetitus de corde fugabitur ardor..." - P
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..." - P
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..."