coepto

coepto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a. and n. [coepio] (mostly poet., and in Tac.; in Cic. in prose only once, apparently for a change with coepit and incipit).

I.

Act., to begin eagerly, to begin, undertake, attempt.

a.

With inf.:

diffidere dictis,

Lucr. 1, 267:

oculi coeptant non posse tueri,

id. 4, 113; 4, 405; 6, 255:

contingere portus,

Cic. Arat. 131:

appetere ea, quae, etc.,

id. Fin. 5, 9, 24 (v. the passage in connection):

coercere seditionem,

Tac. H. 2, 29:

loqui,

id. ib. 3, 10; 3, 81; 5, 10: discedere et abire, * Suet. Oth. 11; Sil. 15, 696.—

b.

With acc.:

quid coeptas, Thraso?

Ter. Eun. 5, 7, 1; id. Phorm. 4, 3, 21; and (acc. to Bentley's correction) id. Heaut. 4, 4, 12:

seditionem,

Tac. A. 1, 38; 1, 45; 2, 81:

defectionem,

id. ib. 4, 24:

fugam,

id. H. 3, 73:

pontem,

id. A. 1, 56:

coeptata libertas,

id. H. 4, 44.—

II.

Intr., to begin, commence, make a beginning (only post-Aug. and rare):

coeptantem conjurationem disjecit,

Tac. A. 4, 27; id. H. 3, 4:

Olympiade septimā coeptante,

Sol. 1:

nocte coeptante,

Amm. 20, 4, 14.