(verb) : coepto, āvi, ātum, 1, and n. coepio (mostly poet., and in Tac.; in Cic. in prose only once, apparently for a change with coepit and incipit).
* Act., to begin eagerly, to begin, undertake, attempt.
* 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.
* 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.

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