(verb) : at-tento (adtempto, K. and H.; at-tempto, Kayser, Rib., Halm, Queck), āvi, ātum, 1, , 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.).

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