Conâtus, huius conátus, pen. prod. Cic.Endeuour: labour: attempt: an enterprise: diligence.Primus cuiusque operis conatus. Quint. The first endeuour.Conatus & apparatus alicuius gratus.Cic.Generosi conatus. Quint. Noble enterprises.Capti conatus frustra.Cic.Comprimere conatus.Cic.To represse attempts.Conatum longius petere. Quint. To fetche his feese or beere further of in leaping.Magno conatu studióque agere aliquid. Ci. With great endeuour and diligence.Nudis conatibus hastam vibrabat. Sil. By playne strength without arte.Impetus & conatus.Cic. Conatus contra aliquem. Cic.Infringere conatus aduersariorum. Cæsar. To breake the purpose and endenour of.Obstare conatibus alicuius.Ouid.To withstand or let.Omnes alicuius motus, conatúsque prohibere.Cic. Idem. Sedare conatum suum.Cic.To appease or stay.
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cōnātus, ūs, m. [conor]. I. Abstr., an effort, exertion, struggle, endeavor: ue ista hercle magno jam conatu magnas nugas dixerit, Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 8: quo majore conatu studioque aguntur, Cic. Quint. 14, 47: omnem sui tribunatus conatum in meam perniciem parare, id. Fam. 5, 2, 6: Genucius ad hostes magno conatu profectus, Liv. 7, 6, 9: in ipso conatu rerum circumegit se annus, i. e.
just as the affair was well begun
, id. 9, 18, 15 Weissenb. ad loc.: vixdum inchoatis rebus in ipso conatu gerendi belli, id. 32, 28, 4.—B.Trop., an impulse, inclination, tendency: dedit natura beluis et sensum et appetitum, ut altero conatum haberent ad naturales pastus capessendos, altero secernerent, etc., Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 122: nulla est ullo in genere laus orationis, cujus in nostris orationibus non sit aliqua si non perfectio, at conatus tamen atque adumbratio, id. Or. 29, 103: se ad hostes contulit conatumque iracundiae suae morte sedavit, id. Brut. 10, 42.—II. Concr., an attempt, effort, undertaking, enterprise, endeavor. (a).Sing.: alii, si perrumpere possent conati ... telis repulsi hoc conatu destiterunt, Caes. B. G. 1, 8 fin.: principem esse ad conatum exercitus conparandi, Cic. Phil. 10, 11, 24: hac ego religione non sum ab hoc conatu repulsus, id. Or. 11, 36: si in me impetum facere conabitur ... ejus conatum refutabo, id. Har. Resp. 4, 7: Icarus primo statim conatu decidit, Suet. Ner. 12: a conatu resistendi deterritus se dedidit, Nep. Dat. 4, 5.—(b).Plur.: compressi tuos nefarios conatus, Cic. Cat. 1, 5, 11: perditi, id. Off. 1, 30, 109: quod conatus adversariorum infregissent, Caes. B, G. 2, 21: aut opprimet hominem aut omnis ejus motus conatusque prohibebit, Cic. Cat. 2, 12, 26: multis frustra conatibus captis, Liv. 3, 5, 6; 9, 4, 1; 21, 29, 5: conatibus alicujus accedere, Suet. Oth. 4: in mediis conatibus aegri Succidimus, Verg. A. 12, 910: obstare conatibus nostris, Ov. R. Am. 683; Auct. B. Alex. 9; cf.: optimi et clarissimi, Cic. Fam. 12, 10, 2: generosi, Quint. 2, 4, 4: crebri parvique, id. 8, 5, 29: ingentes adversus Germaniam, Tac. Agr. 13: vibrare nudis conatibus hastam, Sil. 13, 161: conatus alicujus supra vires, Scrib. Comp. 101.