Tento, tentas, tentâre. Colum. To assay: to proue: to handle or feele often. To tempt one to do euill.An potius tentem leter, an minaciter? Plaut.Tentabam spirarent an nõ auræ. Plau. I assaied or tried, &c.Tentare volui an ita dici possent.Cicer.My mynde was to assay or proue, &c.Experiar & tentabo omnia. Brutus ad Ciceronem. Tenraui quid in eo genere possem.Cic.I did prone, &c.Aliquem leuiter tentare quo animo ferat aliquid.Cicer.Homo quum se ipse perspexerit, totumque tentarit, intelliget, &c.Cic. Aditum tentare, Vide Aditus in ADEO.Animos tentare literis, nuntijs, donts, &c. Cæs. To tempte and prooue mens mindes with, &c.Animos aliquorum spe & metu tentare. Cicero. To prooue what hee can make men doe with hope or feare.Animum alicuius tentare precando.Virg.To trie, &c.Armis rem tentare.Cic.To trie the matter by force.Verbo nefario aures alicuius tentare.Cic.Causas larentes tentare.Virg.Impulsas tentauit pollice chordas. Ou. He assaied % strings.Diserimen sui tentare. Claud. Excursus breues tentant.Virg.Experientia tentare. Var. To make proofe: to assay.Tentare fidem polliciti.Ouid.To prooue whether one wil performe that he promised.Fortunam beili tentareac periclitari. Ci. To aduenture the hazarde of warre.Nouam forrunam tentare. Cæs. Frustra aliquid tentare. Col. To assay in vaine.Fugam tentauit cursu eqnorum. Virgil. Hee assayed to flye away on horsebacke.Insidias tentare. Claud. Insidijs tentare aliquem. Ci. Iter tentare via negata. Hor. To assay to goe that way that be is forbidden.Iudicium tentare pecunia.Cic.To assay with money to corrupt a indge.Leuiter aliquid tentare. Quint. Lacessere bello & tentare nationes aliquas.Cic.Omnia tentare.Cic.Patientiam alicuius tentare.Cic.To trie ones patience.Precibus tentare aliquem.Ouid.To assay what he can doe with one by intreatie.Prudentiam cuiuspiam tentare.Cic.Scientiam alicuius tentare.Cic.To proue ones knowledge.Spem certaminis tentare.Liu.To trie the hope of battell.Studium inutile tentare.Ouid.Vires alicuius tentare.Ouid.Via tentanda est.Virg. Tentari morbo.Cic.To be attached with a sicknesse.Renes morbo tentantur acuto. Horat. Dolore tentante læditur caput aut oculus. Lucr. Amore tentari.Ouid.Scabies tentat ones.Virg.The sheepe ware scabbed.Tentare pedes dicitur vinum.Virg.When it maketh men so dronke that they cannot wel go.Pabula tentant graues fœtas.Virg.Tentare caput dicitur vinum. Plin. To trouble the head. Tentare.Cic.To assaile: to set vpon.
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tento or tempto, āvi, ātum, 1 (part. gen. plur. tentantum, Verg. G. 2, 247), v. freq. a. [tendo], to handle, touch, feel a thing (class.; cf.: tango, tracto). I.Lit.A. In gen.: rem manu, Auct. Her. 4, 49, 62: manibus pectora, Ov. M. 10, 282; 10, 289: loca feminarum digitis, Col. 8, 11, 8: ficum rostro, Ov. F. 2, 254: flumen vix pede (with attingere), Cic. Leg. 2, 3, 6: quadratum, Lucr. 4, 234: caput in tenebris, Phaedr. 3, 10, 26: pullos singulos, Col. 8, 5, 17: invisos amictus, Verg. G. 3, 563: aciem pugionum, Suet. Ner. 49; cf.: acumen stili, id. Rhet. 5: bracchia emittit temptanti maria similis Sarpedon, Plin. 5, 27, 27, 98: pullos, Col. 8, 5, 17; 8, 11, 8.—B. In partic. 1. In medic. lang.: venas,
to feel the pulse
, Quint. 11, 3, 88; Suet. Tib. 72; Ov. H. 20, 139.—2.To try the strength of, make an attempt upon, i. e. to attack, assail (cf.: aggredior, adorior). (a). Of warfare: scalis et classe moenia oppidi tentans, Caes. B. C. 3, 40: opera nostra, id. B. G. 7, 73: urbem, Liv. 33, 5, 3; 26, 38, 5: munitiones, id. 9, 35, 1: moenia Aiexandriae, id. 45, 11: Achaiam, Caes. B. C. 3, 55 Britanniam, Suet. Claud. 17: aggredi et tentare, Vell. 2, 113, 3: aliquem auxiliis Thraciae, Flor. 2, 14, 4.—(b). Of disease, poison, etc.: animi valentes morbo tentari non possunt, corpora possunt, Cic. Tusc. 4, 14, 31; cf.: gravis auctumnus omnem exercitum valetudine tentaverat, Caes. B. C. 3, 2: temptari a morbo, Plin. 24, 19, 113, 174: praecordiorum inflatione tentari, Suet. Aug. 81: tentatus est motiunculis levibus, id. Vesp. 24; Hor. S. 2, 3, 163; id. Ep. 1, 6, 28; Verg. G. 3, 441 al.: vina temptant caput,
attack
,
affect
, Plin. 23, 1, 20, 35.—Absol.: temptantis aquas non nocere,
unwholesome
, Plin. 20, 7, 26, 68; cf. Verg. G. 2, 94.—II.Transf., to try; to prove, put to the test; to attempt, essay a course of action, etc. (so most freq.; syn.: experior, periclitor). A. In gen., constr. with acc., with inf., with rel.-clause, with ut, or absol.(a). With acc.: cum se ipse perspexerit totumque tentarit, intelleget, etc., Cic. Leg. 1, 22, 59; cf.: se in arte memoriae, Quint. 11, 2, 34 (preceded by memoriam suam experiri): tentarem te, quo animo accipias, Cic. Fam. 15, 16, 3: quo utamur quasi equis temptatis, sic amicitiā aliquā parte periclitatis moribus amicorum, id. Lael. 17, 63; alicujus scientiam auguratus, id. Div. 1, 17, 32: tentarem summi regis prudentiam, id. Tusc. 1, 41, 98: ut satis impulsas tentavit pollice chordas, Ov. M. 10, 145: culturam agelli, Lucr 5, 1368: iter per provinciam per vim, Caes B. G. 1, 14: negatā iter viā, Hor. C. 3, 2, 22 Bosporum, id. ib. 3, 4, 31: Thetim ratibus, Verg. E. 4, 32: Oceanum, Tac. G. 34 fin.: Istrum, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 135: aditus, Verg. A. 4, 293: temptanda via est, id. G. 3, 8: ad tentandum vadum fluminis, Curt. 4, 9, 15: nullo modo animus audientis aut incitari aut leniri potest, qui modus a me non tentatus sit, Cic. Or. 38, 132: rem frustra, Caes. B. C. 1, 26: belli fortunam, id. B. G. 1, 36; so, fortunam, id. ib. 3, 6; 7, 64; Sall. J. 7, 1: periculum, Cic. Cornel. Fragm. 1: quaestionem, id. Clu. 57, 157: patientiam vestram, id. Agr. 2, 7, 19: spem pacis, Liv. 21, 12, 3; cf.: spem triumphi, id. 28, 38, 4: libertatem, id. 6, 18, 11: relationem, id. 33, 23, 3: intercessionem, id. 9, 8, 13: silentium nequicquam per praeconem, id. 8, 33, 2: crimina, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 80: majora, id. ib. 1, 17, 24: caelestia, id. ib. 1, 17, 34 et saep.—(b). With rel.-clause: tentavi, quid in eo genere possem, Cic. Tusc. 1, 4, 7: tentabam, spiraret an non, Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 26: quae sit fortuna facillima, temptat, Verg. A. 11, 761: cum tentaret si qua res esset cibi,
something to eat
, Phaedr. 4, 7, 4: tenta, Chrysogonus quanti doceat, Juv. 7, 175.—(g). With inf.: aquā prohibere hostem tentare coepit, Hirt. B. G. 8, 40: tentabo etiam de hoc dicere, Quint. 6, 2, 29; 2, 14, 1: (sol) caelum radiis accendere tentans, Lucr. 5, 659: tentarunt aequore tingi, Ov. M. 2, 172: (vestis) frustra tentata revelli, id. ib. 9, 168: taurus irasci in cornua temptat, Verg. A. 12, 104: nemo in sese tentat descendere, Pers. 4, 23: litteras deferre, Curt. 3, 7, 13; Juv. 7, 5.—(d). With ut: cum ille Romuli senatus tentaret post Romuli excessum, ut ipse gereret sine rege rem publicam, Cic. Rep. 2, 12, 23: quid aliud hoc judicio tentatur, nisi ut id fieri liceat?id. Rosc. Am. 5, 13; Suet. Caes. 11.—Impers. pass.: tentatum a L. Sextio tribuno plebis, ut rogationem ferret, etc., Liv. 4, 49, 6.—(e) Absol.: tenta quā lubet, Plaut. Aul. 4, 4, 20: ne tentando cautiorem faceret, Hirt. B. G. 8, 23.—B. In partic., to try any one, in a friendly or hostile manner; to urge, incite; to tempt, sound, tamper with; also, to excite, disquiet, disturb, agitate: quem ego toties omni ratione tentans ad disputandum elicere non potuissem, Cic. de Or. 2, 3, 13: cum per Drusum saepe tentassem, id. ib. 1, 21, 97: utrum admonitus an tentatus an, etc.... pervenerit ad hanc improbitatem nescio, id. Verr. 2, 1, 41, 105: cum a proximis impetrare non possent, ulteriores tentant, Caes. B. G. 6, 2: animos servorum spe et metu, ut, etc., Cic. Clu. 63, 176: animos popularium, Sall. J. 48, 1: animos singulorum ad res novas, Suet. Tib. 12 fin.: animum precando, Verg. A. 4, 113: judicium pecunia, Cic. Clu. 4, 9; 30, 80: aliquem promissis et minis, Tac. H. 1, 75; cf.: tentatā Othonianorum fide per colloquium et promissa, id. ib. 2, 20: tribunos de fugae societate, Suet. Ner. 47: deos multā caede bidentium, Hor. C. 3, 23, 14: Junonem tentare Ixion ausus, Tib. 1, 3, 73; cf. Ov. A. A. 1, 389; Val. Max. 6, 1, 7: nationes lacessere bello et tentare,
to agitate
, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 9, 23; cf.: ut exsul potius tentare quam consul vexare rem publicam posses, id. Cat. 1, 10, 27: in his rebus evertendis unius hominis senectus, infirmitas solitudoque tentata est, id. Rab. Perd. 1, 2: militis iras, Luc. 2, 529; Vulg. Gen. 22, 1 et saep.