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occĭpĭo, cēpi (coepi), eptum, 3 (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.).

  1. 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.
          1. (β) 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.
  2. II. Neutr., to begin, commence.
    1. 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.
    2. 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.

occĭpĭtĭum, ii, n. [ob-caput], the back part of the head, the poll, the occiput: in occipitio quoque habet oculos, pessima, Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 25: umeris ad occipitium ductis, Quint. 11, 3, 160; Cels. 4, 2; Suet. Tib. 68: ne post occipitium exercitus relinqueret, behind his back, Varr. ap. Non. 245, 15.
Of animals, Plin. 11, 29, 35, § 107.
Prov.: frons occipitio prior est; v. frons; cf.: frontemque domini plus prodesse quam occipitium, Plin. 18, 5, 6, § 31.

occĭput, ĭtis, n. [ob-caput], the back part of the head, the poll, occiput (less freq. than occipitium), Pers. 1, 62; Aus. Epigr. 12, 8.