• VENTURE

1. s. periculum (danger): alea (game of hazard; hazard): facinus: facinus audax (bold deed): dimicatio fortunae or fortunarum, vitae, or capitis (danger where one’s property or life is at stake). At a venture, temere. At all ventures, temere. Vid: also, CAST, s.; RISK.

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• v. To have courage to do a thing, audere (to run a risk): conari (to be bold, to make an effort, with an infinitive; ☞ never with ut).
• Intransitively, To undertake a thing attended with danger, to run the risk of, aleam subire or adire: se in casum dare (to run the risk): audere (to dare). To venture an engagement, in aciem or certamen descendere (☞ Tac. says, poetically, audere aciem, Ann., 12, 28): to venture a decisive battle, summis cum hoste copiis contendere: to venture nothing, periculum or discrimen non audere, non subire.
• To expose to loss or danger, aliquid in aleam dare: ire in aleam alicujus rei (to peril or risk anything): aliquid audere (to dare anything): periculum alicujus rei or in aliqua re facere: aliquid tentare, experiri: periclitari (to try one’s luck in a dangerous business). (The words are found in this connection and order.) experiri et periclitari. To venture one’s life, committere se periculo mortis; manifesto periculo corpus objicere or caput offerre: to venture one’s life for anyone, inferre se in periculum capitis atque vitae discrimen pro alicujus salute: to venture one’s self, se committere (e.g., in aciem, in hostilem terram, in locum praecipitem): to venture one’s self in the midst of the enemy, se immittere in mediae pugnae discrimen: to venture one’s self against anyone, audere aliquem aggredi; aliquem adire audere.