coeptabitis
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. fut. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
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..."Liber XII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...prioribus firmatis. et Brigantes quidem, paucis qui arma coeptabant interfectis, in reliquos data venia, resedere: Silurum gens..."