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temptavit

temptavit is a Latin form of tento, meaning “try, attempt; test”. It is the 3rd person singular perfect active indicative.

Found 55 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 10.23: … io, tota mens auctoritatem senatus, libertatem populi Romani intuetur: haec habet proposita, haec tueri volt. temptavit quid patientia perficere posset: nihil cum proficeret, vi contra vim experiendum putavit. cui quidem, patres …

Tacitus, Historiae 3.83: Temptavit tamen Antonius vocatas ad contionem legiones mitigare, ut castris iuxta pontem Mulvium positis postera die ur …

Suetonius, Divus Julius 11.1: Conciliato populi fauore temptauit per partem tribunorum, ut sibi Aegyptus prouincia plebi scito daretur, nanctus extraordinarii imperii occasio …

All forms of tento (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.