Exploro, ras, pen. prod. râre, Fest. Pomp. To bewaile with erclamation. Explorare.Plin. iun.To assay: to search out diligently: to prooue by diligent searching: to espie.Amenta explorare in digitis.Stat.To assay on his fingers.Animos alicuius explorare.Ouid.To prooue or trie: to assay to knowe mens mindes.Secundæ res acrioribus stimulis animum explorant.Tacit.Prosperitie prooueth a mans minde with sharper prickes.Consilium hostium explorare. Cæs. To attempt: to knowe.Taurus cornua explorat in truncis. Lucan. The bull assayeth and prooueth his hornes on stumpes of trees.Iugulo alicuius dextram suam explorare. Sil. Explorare diem aliquam.Cic.To thoose out a day.Fines & littora gentis explorant.Virg.They search.Explorare fugam. Cice. To search & looke for a meane to fly.Insidias explorat lupus circum ouilia.Virg.A woolfe looketh where he may lie in waite: or he lieth in waite.Explorare gustu bonitatem pauis. Colum. To taste: to assay how good it is.Explorare iter.Liu.To search, view, and trie the way.Iter cæcum.Ouid.To grope or feele the way in the darke.Mentes. Sil. To trie mens mindes to know them.Portas.Virg.To keepe watch at the gates.Prouinciam aliquam.Cic.To viewe and search.Rem notam.Cicer.Ventos.Virg.To trie which way the winds standeth.Vias. Tibul. Vires.Stat. Exploratum est mihi.Cic.I knowe surely: I am sure.Satis est exploratum.Ouid.It is very sure and wel knowne.Exploratum est mihi de hac re.Cic.Exploratum habeo, Idem quod Exploratum est mihi. Cice. Exploratum dicere. Plautus. To speake that he hath tried to be true.
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ex-plōro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to search out, seek to discover, to examine, investigate, explore (class.; in Cic. esp. freq. in the part. perf. and P. a.; syn.: speculor, scitor, sciscitor, percontor, quaero, interrogo). I. In gen. (a). With acc.: explora rem totam, Cic. Att. 6, 8, 5: fugam domini, id. Verr. 2, 5, 17, 44: ambitum Africae, Plin. 5, 1, 1, 8: altera (manus) motu caecum iter explorat, Ov. M. 10, 456: vehiculorum onera, Suet. Tib. 18: glebas gustu, Col. 2, 2, 20: panis potionisque bonitatem gustu, Tac. A. 12, 66 et saep.: ad explorandum idoneum locum castris,
for choosing out
, Caes. B. C. 1, 81, 1: insidias,
to seek out
, Verg. G. 3, 537.—(b). With rel. clause: explorare, qui homines inhabitarent, Petr. 116: apud se explorare, an expediat sibi consilium, Dig. 17, 1, 2 fin.: exploratum est, ubi controversia incipiat, Quint. 7, 1, 8.—b. In the part. perf., examined, ascertained, known: exploratum et provisum, Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 110: jam explorata nobis sunt ea, quae, etc., Cic. Rep. 1, 13: perspecta et explorata perscribere, id. Att. 3, 15, 8; cf.: res non incertis jactatae rumoribus, sed compertae et exploratae, Liv. 42, 13, 1: de numero eorum omnia se habere explorata Remi dicebant, Caes. B. G. 2, 4, 4; id. B. C. 2, 31, 5.—In abl. neutr. absol.: explorato, it being ascertained, i. e. when he knew: explorato, jam profectos amicos, Tac. H. 2, 49.II. In partic. A. In milit. lang., to spy out, reconnoitre: speculatoribus in omnes partes dimissis, explorat, quo commodissime itinere vallum transire possit, Caes. B. G. 5, 49 fin.; cf. id. ib. 5, 50, 3: itinera egressusque ejus, postremo loca atque tempora cuncta explorat, Sall. J. 35, 5: Siciliam adiit, Africam exploravit, Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 12, 34: occulte explorare loca, Caes. B. C. 1, 66, 2: explorato hostium consilio, Hirt. B. G. 8, 18, 2.—In the neutr. absol.: ante explorato et subsidiis positis, Liv. 23, 42, 9; so id. 23, 43, 7; 27, 2fin.—B.To try, test, put to the proof (perh. not ante-Aug.): et suspensa focis explorat robora fumus, Verg. G. 1, 175: taurus in adversis explorat cornua truncis, Luc. 2, 603; cf.: hoc jugulo dextram explora, Sil. 11, 358: animos, Ov. A. A. 1, 456; Liv. 37, 7, 10: explorans quid hostes agerent, id. 37, 28, 6: haec exploranda per impigros juvenes esse, id. 22, 55: secundae res animos, Tac. H. 1, 15: tyranni fidem, Luc. 8, 582.—Hence, explōrātus, a, um, P. a.Lit., ascertained; hence, established, confirmed, certain, sure: ut ei jam exploratus et domi conditus consulatus videretur, Cic. Mur. 24, 49: magna et prope explorata spes, id. Phil. 10, 10, 20; id. Off. 3, 33, 117; id. Tusc. 5, 9, 27: victoria, Caes. B. G. 7, 52, 2: ratio, Cic. N. D. 1, 23, 64: litterae exploratae a timore, i. e.
affording certainty
,
confidence
, id. Att. 3, 17, 1 et saep.: de quo mihi exploratum est, ita esse, ut scribis,
I am certain
,
convinced
, id. Fam. 2, 16, 6; cf. id. Ac. 2, 17, 54: quis est tam stultus, cui sit exploratum, se ad vesperum esse victurum?id. de Sen. 19, 67: in qua (amicitia) nihil fidum, nihil exploratum habeas, id. Lael. 26, 97: exploratam habere pacem, id. Phil. 7, 6, 16: (Deus) habet exploratum, fore, etc., id. N. D. 1, 19, 51: pro explorato habebat, etc., Caes. B. G. 6, 5, 3.—Comp.: facilior et exploratior devitatio legionum fore videtur, etc., Cic. Att. 16, 2, 4.—Sup.: exploratissima victoria, Vell. 84, 1.—Adv.: explōrātē, with certainty, for a certainty, securely, surely (for the most part only in Cic.): haec ita sentio, judico, ad te explorate scribo, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 15, b. 3; cf. judicare, Planc. in Cic. Fam. 10, 8, 6: satis explorate perceptum et cognitum, Cic. N. D. 1, 1, 1: navigare, id. Fam. 16, 8, 1.—Comp.: exploratius promittere, Cic. Fam. 6, 1, 5.— Sup. seems not to occur.