tentares
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tento, tentare, tentavi, tentatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
handle, feel; attempt, try; prove; test; attack; brave; make an attempt;
sg. imperf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
- G
De rhetoribus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius)
"...Fulviam, cui altera bucca inflatior erat, acumen stili tentare dixit, nec eo minus, immo vel magis..." - P
Liber XII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...aliud subsidii quam castellum commeatu egenum: ne dubia tentare armis quam incruentas condiciones mallet. cunctante ad ea Mithridate..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...spectator moderatorque ineuntium certamina virorum, arma componeres, tela tentares, ac si quid durius accipienti videretur, ipse vibrares. Quid..."