coeptabant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →coepto, coeptare, coeptavi, coeptatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
begin/commence (w/INF); set to work, undertake/attempt/try; venture/begin (ACC);
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- G
Otho
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...moras exorto ut eos, qui discedere et abire coeptabant, corripi quasi desertores detinerique sensit, "Adiciamus," inquit, "vitae..." - P
Liber XII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...prioribus firmatis. et Brigantes quidem, paucis qui arma coeptabant interfectis, in reliquos data venia, resedere: Silurum gens..."