Attento, attentas, attentâre. Colum. To assay: to prone: to assaile: to set vpon by disceit.Attentari sententia dicitur. Vlpian. Attentata classis magno cum suo periculo.Cic.Was assalled: set vpon.Vrbem attentare.Cic.To assaile by pollicie.Attentare pudicitiam puellæ. Vlpian. To assaile a maydens chastitie: to entice or prouoke to lewdnesse.Fidem alicuius attentate.Cic.To endeuour to corrupt, and to make to deale vntruely.Attentare tempus prosperum.Tacit.To assay to get.Attentare aliquem bello.Stat.To make warre vpon.Lachrymis attentare allquem.Val. Flac.Precibus attentare aliquem.Val. Flac.To trye. whether he can ouercome one with prayer and intreatie.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
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.).