ATTEMPT Copy link • ATTEMPT 1. v. tentare: experiri: conari: periclitari (aliquem or aliquid; e.g., periclitari Romanos, Nep.): periculum facere alicujus or alicujus rei: moliri (to endeavor to effect a great and difficult work): audere (to attempt a great and dangerous work). [Vid, TRY] Attempt anybody’s mind: sollicitare aliquem or alicujus animum; e.g., pretio: pecunia: pellicere aliquem. 2. s. conatus, us, m. in plur., also conata (attempt, as the beginning of an undertaking): periculum (trial by which, with danger to one’s self, one arrives at experience: periclitatio, as action): experimentum (trial, contrived for the purpose of learning the nature of anything). An unlucky or unsuccessful attempt, res infelicis operae; res infeliciter tentata: a vain attempt, conatus frustra captus: to make an attempt, periculum facere; conatum incipere or facere (incipere of beginning to make it; facere of actually carrying it through, Cic., Cat., 2, 12, 27): against anybody or anything, contra aliquem or aliquid. To make an attempt upon anything, tentare aliquid (e. g, , on a camp castra).