cepit

cepit is a Latin form of capio, meaning “take, seize; capture”. It is the 3rd person singular perfect active indicative.

Found 291 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.100: … elicuit naves Laelianas atque ex his longius productam unam quinqueremem et minores duas in angustiis portus cepit, itemque per equites dispositos aqua prohibere i classiarios instituit. Sed Laelius tempore anni commodiore u …

Cicero, De Divinatione 1.45: … i, pópulo commutátionem rérum portendít fore pérpropinquam. haec béne verruncent pópulo. nam quod ad dexteram cépit cursum ab laéva signum praépotens, pulchérrime aúguratum est rém Romanam públicam sumám fore.

Lucan, Civil War 5.760: Cepit, et adtonito cessere e pectore sensus.

All forms of capio (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.