To receiue: to take out: to excepte: to entertaine: to welcome: to seperate: to take by craft: to take vnawares: to gather: to succeede: to hearken to: to heare. Arripere & excipere. Cic. Domus excepit reduces. Claud. Hospitia cæli excipient senectam tuam. Sil Shal receiue. Patria quæ nos excepit, non scelus dulcis est ea quæ nos genuit. Cice. That hath receiued vs. Comiter excipere aliquem. Ouidius. To welcome gently at his comming. Aduentum alicuius excipere. Sen. Amplexu excipere aliquem. Ouid. To imbrace louingly at his meeting. Excipere aliquid brachijs. Colum. To receiue a thing in his arines. Excipere aliquem clamore. Cicer. To crie and houte at one. Excipere clamoribus. Plini. iuni. To make a great shoute or crie in signication of fanour towarde one. Gremio alicuius excipi. Claud. To be receiued in ones bosome or lappe. Excipere hospitio. Plin. To entertaine: to lodge. Excipere osculo. Plin. iun. To welcome with a kisse: to kisse one at his comming. Plausu excipere aliquem. Virg. Excipi sermonibus compositis. Liui. To be welcomed with a set tale. Excipere benigno vultu. Liu. To welcome with a louing and friendly continaunce. Excipi inter aliquos. Ouid. To be receiued among other. Excipere, pro audire. Quid memorer, hinc excipiam. Plaut. I will stand here and hearken what he saith. Excipere auidis auribus. Plin. iun. To heare very gladly. Aduersarium artentê audire, atque eius non solum sententias, sed euam verba omnia excipere. Cicer. To heare and beare away, &c. Illustri gratia dictum & factum alterius excipere. Cic. Maledictum excipere. Cicero. To take a shrewde worde spoken to him. Exeipere aliquid memoria dignum ex sermone alicuius. Cic. To take a thing worthy memorie out of ones wordes. Mandata ac voces excipere. Tacit. Artus excipere collapsos. Ouidius. To receiue and cherishe his feeble limmes. Auras excipere fluentibus tunicis. Ouidius. To gather aire in his loose garment. Molliter excepit cadentem. Ouid. Excipere cicatrices aduerso corpore. Cicer. To be wounded in the forepart of the body, his face towarde his enemie. Dolores & molestias, Cic. Dolores pro patria. Cicero. Constans & libens fatum excipisti. Tacit. Thou receiuest death coustantly and willingly. Galea excipit ictus. Ouid. The helmet receiueth the blowes. Gladio aliquem excipere. Curt. To receiue one on his swordes point. to strike him as he commeth. Impetum alicuius excipere. Cælar. To receiue or sustaine the brunt of one assaulting him. Iniuriam venti. Col. To beare off the winde. Labentem aliquem excipere, fulcire, & sustinere. Cic. Labores magnos. Cic. To sustaine great paines. Laudem ex re aliqua. Cic. Luctus. Cæs. Memoriam illius viri excipient omnes anni consequentes. Cic. Al posteritie shal remember this man. Molestias excipere. Cic. To take. Onera amicorum. Cic. To take on him the charge and burthen of his friends matters. Pericula. Stat. Plagas. Cic. To be beaten. Preces blandas molliter excipere. Ouid. Pugnam. Liu. To beginne the battaile after other afresh. Rempub desertam & omissam excipere. Liui. To take on him the gouernement of the common weale, forsaken and left succourlesse. Rorem nocturnum excipere. Cæs. To gather the dewe. Rumores excipere. Cic. To intend and hearken to rumours and tales. Sermonem alicuius. Liu. To hearke or heare priuilye what one saith. Spiritus excipitur ore viri. Ouid. Extremum spiritum filiorum excipere. Cicero. To bee with their children at their departing and death: to receiue their last breath. Tela excipere. Cicer. To receiue weapons or dartes. Tela excipere tergo. Sil. Verba excipere. Cicer. To note or write a mans wordes as hee speaketh them Verbera patienter excipere. Ouid. To take stripes patiently. Vim frigorum hyemémque excipere. Cic. Voces excipere. Liu. To hearken and note ones wordes. Vulnera excipere. Cic. To take woundes. Excipere. Sueton. To note and write that one speaketh. Excipere se in genua. Sen. To stay himselfe vppon his knees to fall vpon his knees. Semet excipere poplitibus. Curt. Idem. Corpus excipere poplitibus. Curt. Idem. Excipere se in pedes. Liu. To light on foote. Excipere se pedibus. Curt. Idem. Excipit incautum. Virg. He taketh him vnwares: or hee commeth on him sodainely. Venahulo excipere aprum. Quin. To kil a bore with ahunting staffe. Excipere. Cic. To take by craft. Insidijs aliquid excipere alicui. Virg. Fugientes excipere. Cic. To take those that flie away. Excipere furem. Plaut. To receiue a thiefe as accessary. Omnino hominem excipere. Cic. Ventris onus auro excipere. Martialis. To do his easement in a vessel of golde. Sanguinem patera excipere. Cicero. To holde a siluer bolle and receiue the bloud. Excipere oculos blandius, dicitur res aliqua quæ delectat. Plin. To delight the eyes: to delight one to looke on it. Excipere. Cic. To except: to exempt. Excipere & secernere. Cic. Hoc vnum excipio. Catul. Excepi de antiquis, præter Xenophontem, neminem. Cicer. Per aliquem alicui excipere. Cice. To cause one to make exception to an other in his name. Nominatim aliquem excipere. Cic. In summis alicuius laudibus vnam excipere itacundiam. Ci. In praising a man greatly, to except only an inclination to anger. Sine nomine, & Nominatim, excipere aliquem. cõtraria. Ci. Excipere sorti Virgil. Ipsum illum clypeum excipiam sorti. Ouer and belldes that is your due portion, I will giue you this tergate. Excipere aliquem iniuriæ. Sen. To deliuer from iniurie. Excepit me. Plaut. He ercepted me. Exceptis insularum incolis. Plin. Excepto patre tuo. Plin. iun. Your father being excepted. Ea excepta mhil amicitia præstabilius esse putetis. Cicero. Excepto quòd quidam ex meis aduersam valetudinem feruentissimis æstibus contraxerunt. Plin. iun. Sauing onely this, that some of my company, &c. Quorum in fœderibus exceptum est, nequis nobis ciuis recipiatur. Cicer. In whose league this was expressely excepted, that, &c. Excipere. Among phisitions, to receiue diuers things made to pouder in some licour, and temper thÊ with the same. Hæc excipiuntur cerato è rosa facto. Celsus. These things be receiued and tempered.

I. (With the notion of the ex predominating.) To take or draw out.

A. Lit. (rarely): aliquem e mari, to draw out, fish out, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 293, 26 (Rep. 4, 8, 8 Baiter): vidulum (e mari), Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 140 sq.: dens manu, forcipe, Cels. 7, 12, 1: telum (e vulnere), id. 7, 5, 1: clipeum cristasque rubentes Excipiam sorti, to withdraw, exempt, Verg. A. 9, 271.—

B. Trop.

1. In gen.: servitute exceptus, withdrawn, i. e. rescued from slavery, Liv. 33, 23, 2: nihil jam cupiditati, nihil libidini exceptum, exempt, Tac. Agr. 15.—

2. In partic.

a. To except, make an exception of (freq. and class.): hosce ego homines excipio et secerno libenter, Cic. Cat. 4, 7, 15: qui (Democritus) ita sit ausus ordiri: Haec loquor de universis. Nihil excipit, de quo non profiteatur, id. Ac. 2, 23, 73; cf. id. ib. 2, 9, 28: Lacedaemonii ipsi, cum omnia concedunt in amore juvenum praeter stuprum, tenui sane muro dissaepiunt id, quod excipiunt, id. Rep. 4, 4: senex talos elidi jussit conservis meis: sed me excepit, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 13.—With ne: Licinia lex, quae non modo eum, qui, etc.... sed etiam collegas ejus, cognatos, affines excipit, ne eis ea potestas curatiove mandetur, Cic. Agr. 2, 8, 21; so in legal limitations, id. ib. 2, 9, 24; id. Balb. 14, 32; see also exceptio.—With ut, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 9, 26: excepi de antiquis praeter Xenophanem neminem, id. Div. 1, 39, 87: ut in summis tuis laudibus excipiant unam iracundiam, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 13, 37: dolia, in horreis defossa, si non sint nominatim in venditione excepta, etc., Dig. 18, 1, 76; so ib. 77.—In the abl. absol.: omnium mihi videor, exceptis, Crasse, vobis duobus, eloquentissimos audisse Ti. et C. Sempronios, you two excepted, Cic. de Or. 1, 9, 38; cf.: vos hortor, ut ita virtutem locetis, ut eā exceptā nihil amicitia praestabilius esse putetis, id. Lael. 27 fin.: exceptā sapientiā, id. ib. 6, 20. —Neutr. absol.: excepto, quod non simul esses, cetera laetus, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 50: excepto, si obscena nudis nominibus enuntientur, Quint. 8, 3, 38; Pers. 5, 90; Aug. Serm. 17, 3; 46, 2.—Hence,

(b). Jurid. t. t., said of the defendant, to except, to make a legal exception to the plaintiff's statement: verum est, quod qui excipit, probare debeat, quod excipitur, Dig. 22, 3, 9; so ib. 18: adversus aliquem, ib. 16, 1, 17 et saep.; cf. exceptio and the authorities there cited.—

b. In an oration, a law, etc., to express by name, to make particular mention of, to state expressly (rare, and perh. not anteAug.): cum Graecos Italia pellerent, excepisse medicos, Plin. 29, 1, 8, 16: vites in tantum sublimes, ut vindemitor auctoratus rogum ac tumulum excipiat, expressly stipulates for (in case he should fall and break his neck), id. 14, 1, 3, 10.

II. (With the notion of the verb predominating.) To take a thing to one's self (in a good or bad sense), to catch, capture, take, receive.

A. Lit.

1. In gen.: sanguinem paterā, Cic. Brut. 11, 43; cf. Col. 9, 15, 9: e longinquo sucum, Plin. 25, 7, 38, 78: labentem excepit, Cic. Rab. Post. 16, 43: se in pedes, to take to one's feet, i. e. spring to the ground, Liv. 4, 19, 4: filiorum extremum spiritum ore, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 45, 118; cf.: tunicis fluentibus auras, Ov. A. A. 3, 301: omnium tela, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 72, 177; so, tela, Caes. B. G. 3, 5, 3: vulnera, Cic. Sest. 10, 23; cf.: vulnus ore, Quint. 6, 3, 75; and: plagae genus in se, Lucr. 2, 810: o terram illam beatam, quae hunc virum exceperit! Cic. Mil. 38, 105; cf.: hunc (Mithridatem) in timore et fuga Tigranes excepit, id de. Imp. Pomp. 9, 23: aliquem benigno vultu, Liv. 30, 14, 3; cf. also: hic te polenta excipiet, Sen. Ep. 21 med.: aliquem epulis, Tac. G. 21: multos ex fuga dispersos excipiunt, Caes. B. G. 6, 35, 6. alios vagos per hiberna milites excipiebant, Liv. 33, 29, 2: speculator, exceptus a juvenibus mulcatur, id. 40, 7, 4: cf. Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 5: servos in pabulatione, Caes. B. G. 7, 20, 9: incautum, Verg. A. 3, 332: (uri) mansuefieri ne parvuli quidem excepti possunt, Caes. B. G. 6, 28, 4: aprum latitantem, Hor. C. 3, 12, 10: caprum insidiis, Verg. E. 3, 18: fugientes feras, Phaedr. 1, 11, 6: aprum, feram venabulo, Quint. 4, 2, 17; Sen. Prov. 2 et saep.—

b. Of inanimate subjects: postero die patenti itinere Priaticus campus eos excepit, received them, Liv. 38, 41, 8: silva tum excepit ferum, Phaedr. 1, 12, 9; Quint. 2, 12, 2. —

2. In partic.

a. To come next to, to follow after, succeed a thing: linguam ad radices ejus haerens excipit stomachus, Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 135: quinque milia passuum proxima intercedere itineris campestris; inde excipere loca aspera et montuosa, Caes. B. C. 1, 66 fin.: alios alii deinceps, id. B. G. 5, 16 fin.—Poet.: porticus excipiebat Arcton, i. e. was turned to the north, looked towards the north, Hor. C. 2, 15, 16.—

b. In medic. lang.: aliquid aliqua re, to take something in something, i. e. mixed with something: quae (medicamenta) excipiuntur cerato ex rosa facto, Cels. 5, 18, 20; 5, 25, 5; 6; 12 et saep.—

B. Trop.

1. In gen., to take or catch up, to intercept: genus divinationis naturale, quod animus arripit aut excipit extrinsecus ex divinitate, Cic. Div. 2, 11, 26; cf.: posteaquam vidit, illum excepisse laudem ex eo, quod, i. e. obtained, id. Att. 1, 14, 3: subire coëgit et excipere pericula, to take upon one's self, to receive, support, sustain (the figure being taken from the reception of an enemy's blows or shots), Cic. Prov. Cons. 9, 23; cf.: Germani celeriter phalange facta impetus gladiorum exceperunt, Caes. B. G. 1, 52, 4; so, impetus, id. B. C. 1, 58, 1: vim frigorum hiememque, Cic. Rab. Post. 15, 42: labores magnos, id. Brut. 69, 243 et saep.: excipimus nova illa cum favore et sollicitudine, receive, Quint. 10, 1, 15: verba risu, id. 1, 2, 7: praecepta ad excipiendas hominum voluntates, for taking captive, Cic. de Or. 2, 8, 32: invidiam, to draw upon one's self, Nep. Dat. 5, 2.—

b. Of inanim. or abstr. subjects: quae (sublicae) cum omni opere conjunctae vim fluminis exciperent, Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 9; 3, 13, 1: quid reliquis accideret, qui quosque eventus exciperent, i. e. would befall, overtake them, Caes. B. C. 1, 21 fin.; Verg. A. 3, 318; Liv. 1, 53, 4.—

2. In partic.

a. To catch with the ear, esp. eagerly or secretly, to catch up, listen to, overhear: maledicto nihil facilius emittitur, nihil citius excipitur, Cic. Planc. 23, 57; id. Sest. 48, 102: assensu populi excepta vox consulis, Liv. 8, 6, 7: ad has excipiendas voces speculator missus, id. 40, 7, 4; 2, 4, 5; 4, 30, 3: laudem avidissimis auribus excipit, Plin. Ep. 4, 19, 3: notis quoque excipere velocissime solitum, i. e. to write down in shorthand, Suet. Tit. 3: rumores, Cic. Deiot. 9, 25; cf. voces, Liv. 40, 7, 4: sermonem eorum, id. 2, 4, 5: furtivas notas, Ov. Am. 1, 4, 18.—

b. To follow after, to succeed a thing in time or the order of succession (cf. above, A. 2. a.): tristem hiemem pestilens aestas excepit, Liv. 5, 13, 4: Herculis vitam et virtutem immortalitas excepisse dicitur, Cic. Sest. 68, 143: violis succedit rosa: rosam cyanus excipit, cyanum amarantus, Plin. 21, 11, 39, 68: excipit Pompilium Numam Tullus Hostilius, Flor. 1, 3, 1: hunc (locutum) Labienus excepit, Caes. B. C. 3, 87, 1.—Absol.: turbulentior inde annus excepit, succeeded, followed, Liv. 2, 61, 1; Caes. B. G. 7, 88, 2: re cognita tantus luctus excepit, ut, etc., id. B. C. 2, 7, 3.—Hence,

(b). Transf.: aliquid, to continue, prolong a thing: memoriam illius viri excipient omnes anni consequentes, Cic. de Sen. 6, 19; Liv. 38, 22, 3: vices alicujus, Just. 11, 5.— Poet. with inf., Sil. 13, 687.