I.a proof, test, trial, experiment (mostly post-Aug.; cf.: documentum periculum): nimirum hoc maximum est experimentum, cum constet aegritudinem vetustate tolli, etc., * Cic. Tusc. 3, 30, 74: “Metello experimentis cognitum erat, genus Numidarum infidum esse,” Sall. J. 46, 3; cf. Tac. A. 13, 24: “lenitatis,” id. ib. 15, 24: “virtutis,” Vell. 2, 116, 1; Just. 15, 3, 1: “in omnibus fere minus valent praecepta quam experimenta,” Quint. 2, 5, 15: “medici experimenta per mortis agunt,” Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18; 13, 2, 3, § 19: “experimento probare,” Vulg. Esth. 3, 5.—
II. Experience (post-Aug.; cf. “experientia): experimento meo ac natura ipsa duce,” Quint. 6, 2, 25: “longo experimento testata gloria,” Val. Max. 3, 7, 6 fin.: “Africa contenta qualicumque principe post experimentum domini minoris,” Tac. H. 1, 11: “sed experimentum contra fuit,” the event, result, id. A. 2, 97 fin.—Plur.: “haec autem cognosci experimentis,” Cels. 1 prooem. pp. 9, 10 Milligan: “Trebellius segnior et nullis castrorum experimentis provinciam tenuit,” Tac. Agr. 16.
