Conor, conáris, conâtus sum, conâri. To endeuour: to labour or go about: to attempt.Scio quid conêre. Ter. I know whereabout thou goest.Conari mambus pedibus. Ter. To endeuour with tooth and nayle, or by all meanes he can.Occulte aliquid conari.Cic.To endeuour priuily.Perditè aliquid conari. Quint. Desperately to endeuour, or with all his power.Aliquid per se conari & quætere. Quint. Frustr conari.Virg.In vaine to go about it.Conari aliquid fallaciæ in re aliqua, quo siat minus.Terent.To endeuour to worke some deceyte, whereby, &c.Magnum opus & ardunm conari.Cicer.To goe about some great and harde enterprise.Conari alicui obuiam, Ter.To make speede to meete one. Conari, cum infinitiuo.Cic. Poetas non conor attingere.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
cōnor, ātus, 1, v. dep., to undertake, endeavor, attempt, try, venture, presume, etc. (freq. and class.; syn. molior, Ter. Heaut. 2, 2, 11; opp. facere, Cic. Rosc. Am. 19, 54; opp. perficere, id. Or. 30, 105); constr. with acc., inf., rarely with abl. of the gerund., or absol.(a). With acc. (mostly of indef. objects): quicquam fallaciae, Ter. And. 1, 2, 26: istuc, id. ib. 1, 5, 35: idem, Caes. B. G. 1, 3: opus magnum et arduum, Cic. Or. 10, 33: id quod conantur, id. Cat. 2, 9, 19: multa, id. Or. 30, 105; id. Fin. 1, 16, 82: tantum scelus, id. Fragm. ap. Quint. 5, 13, 30; cf.: tantam rem, Liv. 42, 59, 8: muita stulte, Nep. Hann. 8, 3; Quint. 2, 4, 10: plurima frustra, Verg. A. 9, 398.—(b). With inf. (freq.): hoc dicere, Cic. Quint. 20, 62: aliquid facere, id. Rosc. Am. 19, 54: me labefactare, id. Div. in Caecil. 14, 44: poëtas attingere, id. de Or. 2, 14, 61: versus pangere, Lucr. 1, 26: pueris absinthia dare, id. 1, 936; 4, 12 al.: facere id quod constituerant, Caes. B. G. 1, 5: invito transire, id. ib. 1, 8: tela mittere, Cat. 116, 3; Hor. C. 1, 6, 9; id. Ep. 1, 1, 19.— (g). With abl. gerundii: ne frustra dehortando impedire conemini,
that you attempt not vainly to dissuade
, Nep. Att. 21, 6.—(d). With si: saepius noctu, si perrumpere possent, conati, Caes. B. G. 1, 8, 4. —(e) Absol.: dum moliuntur (mulieres), dum conantur, annus est, Ter. Heaut. 2, 2, 11: conari manibus pedibus noctisque et dies, id. And. 4, 1, 52: conantibus, priusquam id effici posset, adesse Romanos nuntiatur, Caes. B. G. 6, 4: qui prius cogitare quam conari consuesset,
before he proceeded to the undertaking
, Nep. Dat. 7, 1: ego obviam conabar tibi, Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 2: audax ad conandum, Liv. 45, 23, 15.— b. Hence, subst.: cōnāta, ōrum, n., in pass. signif., an undertaking, attempt, venture, hazard (class.), Att. ap. Non. p. 202, 14; Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 39; Lucr. 5, 386; Caes. B. G. 1, 3; Nep. Dion, 8, 5; Liv. 21, 50, 9; 42, 11, 3; Quint. 8, 3, 69; Suet. Galb. 17; Ov. M. 10, 420; 14, 755 sq.; Juv. 13, 210; Vell. 2, 35, 5 et saep.
