probatus (tried and found good): spectatus (PROP., repeatedly and closely examined; both of persons and things): igni spectatus: igni perspectus (that has stood the test of fire, Cic., Off., 2, 1 1, 38; of friendship, Cic., post Red. in Sen., 9, 23): cognitus (known; of things): Thoroughly tried, per omnia expertus: tried by experience, probatus experimento: of tried fidelity, fidelis: a man of tried virtue, homo cognita virtute: men of tried morality, viri quorum vita in rebus honestis perspecta est.