coeptabat
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);
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...adflictando, modo singulos nomine ciens, praemiis vocans, seditionem coeptabat, adeoque commoverat ut signifer legionis sextae signum..."Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...ferociter iactando, postquam immissis lictoribus Valens coercere seditionem coeptabat, ipsum invadunt, saxa iaciunt, fugientem sequuntur. spolia Galliarum..."