adtempto

at-tento ( adtempto, K. and H.; at-tempto, Kayser, Rib., Halm, Queck), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., lit., to strive after something, to attempt, essay, try, make trial of; to solicit; to assail, attack (class. in prose and poetry):

digitis mollibus arcum attemptat,

attempts to draw, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 217:

aliquem lacrimis,

to attempt to move, Val. Fl. 4, 11:

praeteriri omnino fuerit satius quam attemptatum deseri,

begun, Cic. de Or. 3, 28, 110:

attemptata defectio,

the attempted revolt, Liv. 23, 15, 7 (Weissenb., temptata ):

omnium inimicos diligenter cognoscere, colloqui, attemptare,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 54:

Capuam propter plurimas belli opportunitates ab illā impiā et sceleratā manu attemptari suspicabamur,

i. e. moved by persuasion to revolt, id. Sest. 4:

ne compositae orationis insidiis sua fides attemptetur,

id. Or. 61, 208:

mecum facientia jura Si tamen adtemptas,

i. e. attempt to shake, attack, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 23:

nec hoc testamentum ejus quisquam attemptavit,

sought to annul, Val. Max. 7, 8, 3; so,

sententiam judicis,

Dig. 12, 6, 23: pudicitiam, to seek to defile or pollute, ib. 47, 10, 10:

annonam,

to make dearer, ib. 47, 11, 6.—Of a hostile attack:

vi attemptantem repellere,

Tac. A. 13, 25:

jam curabo sentiat, Quos attentārit,

Phaedr. 5, 2, 7:

haud illum bello attemptare juvencis Sunt animi,

Stat. Th. 4, 71.— Trop.: Quae aegritudo insolens mentem attemptat tuam? Pac. ap. Non. p. 322, 18 (Trag. Rel. p. 84 Rib.).