TRIAL Copy link • TRIALExamination, tentatio: spectatio: examen: deliberatio: reputatio: consideratio. [SYN. in EXAMINATION]. Attempt, conatus: periculum: experimentum [SYN. in ATTEMPT]: tentamen (only in Ovid, but probably current also in prose). An unsuccessful trial, res infeliciter tentata: to make a trial, periculum facere (alicujus rei); conatum facere or incipere. Legal trial, quaestio (the inquiry). To put anybody on his trial, aliquem lege interrogare: quaerere ex aliquo: quaestionem habere de or ex aliquo: quaestionem ponere in aliquem: for anything, audire de aliqua re; quaestionem habere or instituere de aliqua re; aliquem lege alicujus rei (or alicujus rei only) interrogare: to be put upon one’s trial, lege interrogari. [Vid: ACTION for more phrases.] Trials = misfortunes sent to try us, *calamitates virtutis spectandae causa divinitus allatae; also labores (hardships).