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occipio

to begin

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Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Mercator 8 · 9.34/10k
Amphitruo 7 · 7.12/10k
Epidicus 4 · 6.14/10k
Trinummus 5 · 5.08/10k
Rudens 6 · 5.06/10k
Adelphi 5 · 5.05/10k
Asinaria 4 · 4.95/10k
Stichus 3 · 4.83/10k
Miles Gloriosus 6 · 4.73/10k
Florida 3 · 3.81/10k
Aulularia 2 · 2.9/10k

Densest 12 of 37 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

occĭpĭo — Lewis & Short

occĭpĭo, cēpi (coepi), eptum, 3 (

I fut. perf. occepso for occepero, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 41; id. Cas. 5, 4, 22: occepsit for occeperit, id. As. 4, 1, 49), v. a. and n. ob-capio, to begin, commence any thing (not in Cic. or Cæs.).

I Act.: nunc quod occepi, obsonatum pergam, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 154: cantationem, id. Stich. 5, 5, 19: quaestum, Ter. And. 1, 1, 52: sermonem cum aliquo, id. Eun. 4, 1, 8: magistratum, to enter upon, Tac. A. 3, 2; 6, 45; Liv. 3, 19; 4, 37.—Pass.: istuc quicquid est, quā hoc occeptum est causā, loquere, Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 36; Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 49.—

(b) With inf.: ne aliam rem occipiat loqui, Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 35: agere armentum, Liv. 1, 7: concubia vexillum flagitare occipiunt, Tac. A. 1, 39; id. H. 2, 16.—Pass.: (fabula) occepta est agi, Ter. Eun. prol. 22.—

II Neutr., to begin, commence.

A In gen.: a meridie nebula occipiebat, Liv. 29, 27, 6 Hertz (Weissenb. excepit): modo dolores occipiunt primulum, Ter. Ad. 3, 1, 2: hiems, Tac. A. 12, 12: juventas occipit puero, Lucr. 5, 889.—

B Esp., in formula, ita ut occepi, in resuming a discourse or topic after an interruption: ita ut occepi, si animum advortas, dicam, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 52 Brix ad loc.; id. Stich. 4, 2, 1; id. Curc. 1, 1, 43 al.

In the wild

occipiunt Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.4.55.2
occipiebat Tacitus, Annales 12.p12
occepi Plautus, Rudens 4.4
occepistis Plautus, Mostellaria 1.1
occepit Plautus, Mercator 1.2
occipiat Plautus, Trinummus 4.3

6 of 106 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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