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coepisse

coepisse is a Latin form of coepio, meaning “begin”. It is the perfect active infinitive.

Found 57 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.32: … ne multa, HS mille me, inquit, poposcerunt; dixi me daturum. vocat interea praetor, poscit scyphos. tum illos coepisse praetori dicere putasse se, id quod audissent, alicuius preti scyphos esse Pamphili; luteum negotium esse, no …

All forms of coepio (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.