[Remark: this dictionary entry has no valid XML/HTML content in database so a text version of this entry is shown.]: <orth>Ineo</orth>, inis, iníui, initum. pe. cor. inîre <p> <sense><trans lang="en">To goe, or enter in: to begin: to desetue: ta get to wimto obtaine: to treate.</trans> <I>Non tibi moris tua inire tentoria, nisi commilitonum ante intrasses.</I> <bibl><author>Plin. iun.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">It is not your fashion to enter into your owne tent, &c.</trans> <I>Ne quis castra imperatorum iniret.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <I>Inijt re vnquam febris? Plau.</I> <trans lang="en">Did a feaner euer take thee: haddest thou euer any ague<12></trans> <I>Aestimarionem alicuius rei inire.</I> Sen. <trans lang="en">To value: to esteeme the value of.</trans> <I>Veram hominis æstimationem inire.</I> Sen. <trans lang="en">To esteeme a man truely as he is.</trans> <I>Beneficium verbis initum dudum, nunc re comprobes.</I> Tere. <trans lang="en">That you would perfourme indeede the benefite that in wordes you promised long since.</trans> <I>Causam aut rationem alicuius rei inire.</I> <bibl><author>Liu.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To consider, or denise a cause or reason why a thing is done.</trans> <I>Certamen inire.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To enter or begin battaile.</trans> <I>Connubia famulæ inire.</I> <bibl><author>Ouid.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To mary his seruant.</trans> <I>Consilium inire de re aliqua.</I> Plant. <trans lang="en">To consult of a thing.</trans> <I>Consilium cum aliquo inire.</I> Ci. <trans lang="en">To consnlt or take counsaile with one.</trans> <I>Consilia inire cum genero cœpit.</I> <bibl><author>Liu.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">He began to consult.</trans> <I>Consilium multæ calliditatis mit.</I> <bibl><author>Ouid.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">He goeth about a dery trafty purpose and denise.</trans> <I>Consortium inter fratres initum.</I> Vlp. <trans lang="en">Felowship entred.</trans> <I>Consulatum inire.</I> Cæs. <bibl><author>Liu.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To begin his consulship.</trans> <I>Conuiuium inire.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To goe to a feast or banket.</trans> <I>Cubile alicuius inire.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To ly with ones wife.</trans> <PB> <I>Cursum inire.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To begin a course or hasry vosage.</trans> <I>Dapes inire cum aliquo.</I> <bibl><author>Stat.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To fensf or banquet with one.</trans> <I>Domos ignoras inire.</I> <bibl><author>Ouid.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To enter into.</trans> <I>Fœdus inire Propert.</I> <trans lang="en">To enter league.</trans> <I>Gratiam ab aliquo inire.</I> Cicero. <trans lang="en">To get or winne fauoure or friendship at ones handes.</trans> <I>Gratiam apud aliquem inire <bibl><author>Liu.</author></bibl></I> Idem. <I>Gratiam cum bonis omnibus inire.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To get the loue and fauonre of all good men.</trans> <I>Gratiam inire, præ positionibus subinteilectis.</I> C. Vt non ineÛda, sed referenda sit gratia. <trans lang="en">So that we must not get fauoure, but requite a pleasure done.</trans> <I>Falsam gratiam inire.</I> Ter. <trans lang="en">To procure fained friendship, or thanke vudeserued.</trans> <I>Honoré inire.</I> Soet. <trans lang="en">To begin, to enter into any office or dignitie.</trans> <I>Imperia alicuius inire.</I> <bibl><author>Stat.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To serne and obey one.</trans> <I>Dominíque negar captiuus inire imperia.</I> <bibl><author>Ouid.</author></bibl> <I>Inducias inire.</I> Plin. iuo. <trans lang="en">To make truce.</trans> <I>Interregnum.</I> inire. <bibl><author>Liu.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To enter the gouernement of % office voide until newe be chosen.</trans> <I>Limen vite inire.</I> Lucr. <trans lang="en">To be newe borne.</trans> <I>Magistratum inire.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To enter or begin his office.</trans> <I>Mensuras agrorum inire.</I> Col. <trans lang="en">To measure how much enerye field coutaineth.</trans> <I>Negotiationem inire.</I> Pomponius. <I>Munus alicuius inire.</I> Vir. <trans lang="en">To voe ones office and duetie.</trans> <I>Nexum inire.</I> <bibl><author>Liu.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To be bounde, to be in prison and chaines.</trans> <I>Vide Nexus in NECTO.</I> <I>Numerum inire.</I> <bibl><author>Liu.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To number: to recken.</trans> <I>Pastum joire <bibl><author>Plaut.</author></bibl></I> <trans lang="en">To feede as beastes doe.</trans> <I>Pericula præliorum inire.</I> Ci. <trans lang="en">To enter daunger of battaile.</trans> <I>Pœnam suam inire.</I> <bibl><author>Ouid.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To begin to doe the thing % wyll turne to his paine and cuil.</trans> <I>Pugnam & prælium inire.</I> <bibl><author>Plaut.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To enter battaile.</trans> <I>Inire prælium: opponitur Finire Prælium.</I> <bibl><author>Liu.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To begin.</trans> <I>Rationem inire.</I> Ter. <trans lang="en">To denise how a thing may be done.</trans> <I>Mihimet ineunda ratio, & via reperienda est, qua ad Appronij prædam possim pernenire.</I> Ci. <trans lang="en">I must denise with my selfe how, and inuent a meanes whereby I may, &c.</trans> <I>Rationem inire de commodis militum veteranorum augédis.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To consult how, &c.</trans> <I>Ineas Rationem quemadmodum ca mulier Romam perducatur.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">You must deuise a meanes, how, &c.</trans> <I>Se aliquá rationÊ inituros quomodo ab Hispanis sumãt.</I> Li. <trans lang="en">That they wold denise some meanes how they may take, &c.</trans> <I>Vt multa tam grauis depelleretur, me inita ratio est.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">I deuised how. &c.</trans> <I>Rationem inire.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To recken: to make an account.</trans> <I>Inita subductáque ratione.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">Al things teckned and well accounted after they have tolve theire cardes.</trans> <I>Vix ratiouem inire posse, vtrum ab se audacius, an fugacius ab hostibus geratur bellum.</I> <bibl><author>Liu.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">That they can scante tell or denise with themselfe.</trans> <I>Aliquid inire cum ratione.</I> Te. <trans lang="en">Wisely to consider a thing before he begin.</trans> <I>Sedes lucidas inire.</I> Hor. <I>Societatem inire cum aliquo.</I> Plancus ad Ciceronem. <trans lang="en">To associate himselfe with one.</trans> <I>Inire somnum.</I> <bibl><author>Virg.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To begin to sleepe.</trans> <I>Inire suffragia.</I> I. iu. <trans lang="en">To assemble together, to the end to giue voices in election of officers or other like things.</trans> <I>Thalamos pudicos inire.</I> <bibl><author>Ouid.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To lye with honest women, % thinke no vilanie.</trans> <I>Tribunatum inire, vt Magistratum inire.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <I>Multas inirevias.</I> <bibl><author>Ouid.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To goe many waies.</trans> <I>Inite viam.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">Go on your way.</trans> <I>Vias ignotas inire.</I> <bibl><author>Ouid.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To goe vnknowne waies.</trans> <I>Viam inire, pro Inire rationem.</I> L. <trans lang="en">To assay a way or meanes.</trans> <I> Inire.</I> Vir. <trans lang="en">To begin.</trans> vt. Te consule inijt pollio. <bibl><author>Virg.</author></bibl> <I> Inire.</I> Plin. <trans lang="en">To leape or couer the female, as the horse doth % mare.</trans> vt Inire matrem, Var. <trans lang="en">To couer or leape his dame.</trans> </sense>
Initium, initij n. g. Quin, A beginning.Initium iræ. Ter. The beginning of anget.Inter initia priacipatus. Vide INTER. Illa initia, quæ græcè elementa dicuntur.Cic.Abrupta initia. Quin. Initia quædam, ac semina sunt concessa natura. Quin. Mediocre initium Suet. Petitum initium. Quin. Præcedentia initia Quin. Initio ablatiuus. pro In initio. Ci. In the beginning.In initio accusationis exanimarus sum.Cic.Ab initio.Cic.From the beginning.Capere initium. Cæs. To begin: to take a beginning.Destinare sibi certa initia. Quin. Dare initium alicuius rei. Quin. To giue a beginning.Ducere initium ex re aliqua. Quin. To begin, or take a beginning at a thing.Ducere rerum initium ac legum suarum alicunde.Cic.To begin his matters and lawes at.Facere initium. Idem. Cic.To begin.Facere initium are aliqua. Quin. To beginne at or with.Inducti his initij, omnia vera diligimus. Cic.Introducere initium.Cic. Vide INTRODVGO. Pellere initium sermonis, Vide PELLO.Ponere initium.Cic.To beginne.Initium surnere. Quin. To beginne.
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ĭn-ĕo, īvi and ĭi, ĭtum, īre (iniri only ap. Vop. Procul. 12, 7; fut. iniet, Sen. Ben. 21, 2), v. a. and n.I.To go into, to enter a place (class.). A.Lit.1. In gen., constr. with acc., or with in and acc.(a). With acc.: illius domum, Cic. Deiot. 3, 8: urbem, Liv. 3, 24, 8: Argolicas acies non ignarus ini (i. e. inii), Stat. Th. 8, 107: convivia, Cic. Rosc. Am. 18, 52: viam, iter,
to enter on a journey
, id. Mur. 12, 26.—Pass.: nemus nullis illud initur equis, Ov. F. 3, 266: (Hispania) prima Romanis inita provinciarum, Liv. 28, 12, 12.— (b). With in and acc.: in urbem, Liv. 24, 9, 2.— 2. In partic., to know, in mal. part., Liv. 41, 13, 2: reginam, Drusillam, Anton. ap. Suet. Aug. 69: feminae viros ineunt, Sen. Ep. 95, 21; so of animals,
to pair
, Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 9; Plin. 10, 63, 83, 178.—Pass.: vacca ab agresti tauro inita, Liv. 41, 13, 2; cf.: sic velut inita arbor fecundo semine fertilior exstat, Col. 5, 9, 16.— B.Trop., to enter upon, begin a business, an enterprise, occupation, office, etc.: magistratum, Cic. Phil. 3, 1, 2: consulatum, Liv. 24, 9, 7: imperium, Suet. Tib. 67.—Pass.: inito magistratu, Liv. 36, 1, 1: magnum et difficile certamen iniens, Cic. Fin. 4, 12, 31; Curt. 4, 3, 12: proelium, id. Off. 1, 11, 37; Vell. 2, 55, 3; Suet. Tib. 2; id. Vesp. 4: pugnas, Verg. A. 11, 912: bellum, Curt. 5, 9, 4.—Pass.: bellum cum rege Philippo initum est, Liv. 31, 5, 1; 36, 1, 5: numerum, to go into an enumeration, i. e. to enumerate, give the number: numerus interfectorum haud facile iniri potuit, Liv. 38, 23, 6: numerus inibatur, Caes. B. G. 7, 76: rationem, to make an estimate: rationem inire oportet operarum, dierum, Cato, R. R. 2, 2; cf.: initā subductāque ratione, Cic. N. D. 3, 29, 71: inire rationem also freq. signifies, to calculate, consider, find out, devise, contrive: rogo, ut adjuves ineasque rationem, quemadmodum ea mulier Romam perducatur, id. Fam. 13, 28, 2: mihi ineunda ratio, et via reperiunda est, qua ad Apronii quaestum possim pervenire, id. Verr. 2, 3, 46. 110: ut multa tam gravis depelleretur, a me inita ratio est. id. Fam. 5, 20, 4: rationem de re, id. Phil. 5, 19, 53: ad hunc interficiendum talem iniit rationem, Nep. Hann. 10, 3: aestimationem,
to make an estimate
,
to estimate
,
value
, Sen. Ben. 3, 8 fin.: mensuram agrorum,
to take the measure of
,
to measure
,
survey
, Col. 5, 3, 1: societatem cum aliquo, to enter into or form an association with a person, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 8, 3; so of an alliance, Suet. Tib. 2: bellum,
, Plin. Pan. 11, 5: consilium, to form a plan, Ov. F. 3, 380: consilia inibat, quemadmodum a Gergovia discederet,
formed plans
,
considered
,
deliberated
, Caes. B. G. 7, 43: consilium facinoris contra vitam alicujus, Cic. Deiot. 2, 4: gratiam, to get into the good graces, obtaĭn the favor of: plures ineuntur gratiae, si, etc.,
the favor of many is gained
, id. Brut. 57, 209: gratiam ab aliquo, Nep. Alcib. 9 fin.: apud regem initam gratiam volebant, Liv. 36, 5, 3: summam gratiam a bonis omnibus, Cic. Att. 7, 9, 3: viam, to find out a way to do any thing: ineamus viam aliquam, qua utri utris imperent, decerni possit, Liv. 1, 23, 9: suffragia, i. q. dare, id. 3, 17, 4; 3, 25, 4: inită aestate,
in the beginning of
, Caes. B. G. 2, 2; 2, 35, 2; cf.: inită hieme, id. ib. 3, 7, 1.—Poet.: somnum,
to fall asleep
, Verg. E. 1, 56: ipse ego paulisper pro te tua munera inibo,
to undertake
, id. A. 5, 846: formam vitae,
to enter upon a course of life
, Tac. A. 1, 74: teque adeo decus hoc aevi, te consule (puer), inibit, Pollio,
he will enter on this golden age during your consulship
, Verg. E. 4, 11 Ladew.; cf. Forbig. ad loc.— II.v. n. (= incipere), to make a beginning, to begin: ex ineunte aevo, Lucr. 5, 859; so, ineunte vere, Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 12, 35 fin.: ineunte aestate, id. Att. 4, 2, 6: ab ineunte aetate, id. de Or. 1, 21, 97: ab ineunte adulescentia, id. Div. in Caecil. 2, 4; Nep. Alcib. 2, 2; cf. id. Them. 1, 1 al.
ĭnĭtĭum, ĭi, n. [ineo], a going in, en trance.I.A beginning, commencement (syn.: principium, exordium). A.Lit.: bonis initiis orsus tribunatus, tristes exitus habuit consulatus, id. Brut. 34, 128: initio accusationis, id. de Or. 1, 26, 121: initium capere, Caes. B. G. 1, 1: dicendi initium sumere, Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 1: facere initium confligendi, id. Phil. 14, 14, 36: caedis initium ab aliquo facere, id. ib. 5, 7, 20: male ponere initia, id. Att. 10, 18, 2: ducere ab aliqua re, id. ib. 9, 9, 2: ab initio res quem ad modum facta sint, exponemus, Cic. Rosc. Am. 5, 14: ab ultimo initio repetere, Auct. Her. 1, 9, 14: seditionem ab altiore initio repetam, Tac. H. 2, 27: quia initio caedis orto difficilis modus, id. ib. 1, 39.— Pleon.: querellae ab initio tantae ordiendae rei absint, Liv. praef. 12; cf.: prima initia incohare, id. 3, 54, 9: primum initium certaminis, id. 6, 12, 10. — The abl. sing. is used adverbially, in the beginning, at first: quemadmodum senatus initio censuit, Cic. Fam. 1, 7, 4: redeo ad illud quod initio scripsi, id. ib. 1, 7, 5; Nep. Thras. 1, 5; id. Tim. 3, 1; id. Alc. 5, 3; Curt. 3, 8, 17 al.; cf. Zumpt, Gram. 475. — B.Transf.1.Constituent parts, elements: inde est indagatio nata initiorum, et tamquam seminum, unde essent omnia orta, generata, concreta, Cic. Tusc. 5, 24, 69: illa initia, et, ut e Graeco vertam, elementa dicuntur ( = stoixei=a), id. Ac. 1, 7, 26; so of death: Augustus in sua resolutus initia, Vell. 2, 123, 3. — 2.First principles, elements cf a science: illa initia mathematicorum, quibus non concessis digitum progredi non possunt, Cic. Ac. 2, 36, 116.— 3.Beginning, origin: quomodo initium nobis rerum omnium ortus noster adferat, sic exitum mors, etc., Cic. Tusc. 1, 38, 91: natus obscurissimis initiis, Vell. 2, 761; cf.: pauca ab initio causisque talium facinorum non absurda, which relate to the origin, etc., Tac. H. 4, 48.— 4.Auspices, because with them everything was begun; hence, the beginning of a reign: novis initiis et ominibus opus est, i. e.
of a new king
, Curt. 5, 9, 4.— II.Secret sacred rites, sacred mysteries, to which only the initiated were admitted: initia vocantur potissimum ea, quae Cereri fiunt sacra, Varr. R. R. 3, 1, 5: initia Cereris, Liv. 31, 47, 2; cf. 39, 8, 5: nihil melius illis mysteriis, quibus ex agresti immanique vita exculti ad humanitatem et mitigati sumus, initiaque ut appellantur, ita re vera principia vitae cognovimus, Cic. Leg. 2, 14, 36; Just. 2, 6: initia Samothracum, Curt. 8, 1, 12: initiis pacis, foedus cum feritur, Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 9.—B.Things (musical instruments) used in celebrating these mysteries: Typanum, tubam, Cybele, tua, mater, initia, Cat. 63, 9.