initiated

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began, started, undertook, initiated (pres. incipio).

imbŭo ( inb-), ŭi, ūtum, 3, v. a. [in- and root biv-; cf. bibo, and Gr. pinô], to wet, moisten, dip, tinge, touch, etc. (class.; cf.: inficio, infusco).

Lit.:

liquoribus lanam,

Col. 9, 14, 15: tapetes, quos concha purpura imbuens venenavit, Cn. Matius ap. Gell. 20, 9, 3:

cados amurca,

Plin. 15, 8, 8, § 33:

guttura lacte,

Ov. Ib. 131:

imbuti sanguine gladii legionum vel madefacti potius,

wet, or rather dripping with blood, Cic. Phil. 14, 3, 6:

sanguis novus imbuit arma,

Verg. A. 7, 554:

sanguine manus,

Vell. 2, 20, 1:

vestis imbuta sanguine,

Ov. M. 9, 153:

munus tabo imbutum,

Hor. Epod. 5, 65:

tela imbuta veneno,

Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 77:

oscula, quae Venus Quinta parte sui nectaris imbuit,

Hor. C. 1, 13, 16:

odore imbuta Testa,

id. Ep. 1, 2, 69.—With Gr. acc.:

alium quae sunt inbuta colorem,

Lucr. 2, 734 Munro.—

Trop.

In gen., to fill, tinge, stain, taint, infect, imbue, imbrue with any thing (esp. freq. in part. perf.): morte manus, Att. ap. Non. 521, 8; cf.:

gladium scelere,

Cic. Phil. 5, 7, 20:

talibus promissis aures militum,

Curt. 4, 10, 17:

militum sanguine manus,

id. 3, 8, 5.—

In part. perf.:

aliqua humanitate imbuti,

Varr. R. R. 1, 17, 4; cf.:

religione imbuti,

Cic. Div. 1, 42, 93:

imbutus admiratione,

Liv. 21, 39, 7:

legiones favore Othonis,

Tac. H. 2, 85:

miles longo Caesarum sacramento,

id. ib. 1, 5:

imbuti et infecti Romanis delenimentis,

Liv. 40, 11, 3:

imbutus alicujus consiliis,

id. 42, 26, 8:

hac ille crudelitate imbutus,

Cic. Phil. 3, 3, 4:

superstitione,

id. Fin. 1, 18, 60:

sociale bellum macula sceleris imbutum,

id. Font. 14, 31:

colonorum caede imbutis armis,

Liv. 4, 31, 7:

imbutae caede manus,

Ov. A. A. 2, 714:

imbutae praeda manus,

Tac. A. 1, 36.—

In partic.

To inspire or impress early, to accustom, inure, initiate, instruct, imbue:

his ego de artibus gratiam facio, ne colas, ne inbuas eis tuom ingenium,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 17:

quibus ille studiis ab ineunte aetate se imbuerat,

Cic. Deiot. 10, 28; cf.:

animum tenerum opinionibus,

id. Att. 14, 13, B, 4:

variis erroribus,

id. Tusc. 3, 1, 2:

adulescentuli castrensibus stipendiis imbuebantur,

Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 5:

liberaliter educatos servilibus vitiis imbuisse,

Liv. 26, 2, 11:

nemo est tam immanis, cujus mentem non imbuerit deorum opinio,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 13, 30; cf.:

ea pietate omnium pectora imbuerat, ut, etc.,

Liv. 1, 21, 1:

inter novitatem successoris, quae noscendis prius quam agendis rebus inbuenda sit,

id. 41, 15, 8:

imbuendis sociis ad officia legum,

Tac. A. 12, 32:

nec quicquam prius imbuuntur quam contemnere deos,

id. H. 5, 5:

qui honestis sermonibus aures imperatoris imbuant,

id. ib. 4, 7; id. Or. 29; 31:

optume cum domito juvencus imbuitur,

is trained to labor, Plin. 8, 45, 70, § 180.—

To do any thing for the first time, explore, essay, set the example ( poet.):

illa rudem cursu prima imbuit Amphitriten,

was the first to navigate, Cat. 64, 11:

terras vomere,

to plough first, Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 52; Val. Fl. 1, 69:

phialam nectare,

to fill first, Mart. 8, 51, 17: bellum sanguine, to initiate, i. e. to begin, Verg. A. 7, 542; cf. ib. 554:

juvenem primo Hymenaeo (conjux),

Sil. 3, 65:

imbuis exemplum primae tu, Romule, palmae,

begin, set the example, Prop. 4 (5), 10, 5:

opus,

Ov. A. A. 1, 654.—

Esp. in part. perf., somewhat instructed, imbued, initiated, trained:

nos ita a majoribus instituti atque imbuti sumus, ut. etc.,

Cic. Phil. 10, 10, 20; cf.:

et doctrina liberaliter institutus et aliquo jam imbutus usu,

id. de Or. 2, 39, 162:

parentum praeceptis imbuti,

id. Off. 1, 32, 118: imbutus rudimentis militiae, Vell. 2, 129, 2; cf.:

imbutum jam a juventa certaminibus plebeiis,

Liv. 5, 2, 13:

cognitiones verborum, quibus imbuti sumus,

Cic. Fin. 2, 5, 16:

dialecticis imbutus,

id. Tusc. 1, 7, 14; cf.:

litteris saltem leviter imbutus,

Quint. 1, 2, 16:

quasi non perfectum litteris sed imbutum,

Suet. Gramm. 4:

(verna) Litterulis Graecis imbutus,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 7:

ad quam (legem) non docti, sed facti, non instituti, sed imbuti sumus,

Cic. Mil. 4, 10;

so opp. instructus: elementis studiorum etsi non instructus, at certe imbutus,

Tac. Or. 19.— Poet.:

aurea pavonum ridenti imbuta lepore saecla,

endued, Lucr. 2, 502 Munro (dub.; v. Lachm. Lucr. 2, p. 102).

imbŭo ( inb-), ŭi, ūtum, 3, v. a. [in- and root biv-; cf. bibo, and Gr. pinô], to wet, moisten, dip, tinge, touch, etc. (class.; cf.: inficio, infusco).

Lit.:

liquoribus lanam,

Col. 9, 14, 15: tapetes, quos concha purpura imbuens venenavit, Cn. Matius ap. Gell. 20, 9, 3:

cados amurca,

Plin. 15, 8, 8, § 33:

guttura lacte,

Ov. Ib. 131:

imbuti sanguine gladii legionum vel madefacti potius,

wet, or rather dripping with blood, Cic. Phil. 14, 3, 6:

sanguis novus imbuit arma,

Verg. A. 7, 554:

sanguine manus,

Vell. 2, 20, 1:

vestis imbuta sanguine,

Ov. M. 9, 153:

munus tabo imbutum,

Hor. Epod. 5, 65:

tela imbuta veneno,

Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 77:

oscula, quae Venus Quinta parte sui nectaris imbuit,

Hor. C. 1, 13, 16:

odore imbuta Testa,

id. Ep. 1, 2, 69.—With Gr. acc.:

alium quae sunt inbuta colorem,

Lucr. 2, 734 Munro.—

Trop.

In gen., to fill, tinge, stain, taint, infect, imbue, imbrue with any thing (esp. freq. in part. perf.): morte manus, Att. ap. Non. 521, 8; cf.:

gladium scelere,

Cic. Phil. 5, 7, 20:

talibus promissis aures militum,

Curt. 4, 10, 17:

militum sanguine manus,

id. 3, 8, 5.—

In part. perf.:

aliqua humanitate imbuti,

Varr. R. R. 1, 17, 4; cf.:

religione imbuti,

Cic. Div. 1, 42, 93:

imbutus admiratione,

Liv. 21, 39, 7:

legiones favore Othonis,

Tac. H. 2, 85:

miles longo Caesarum sacramento,

id. ib. 1, 5:

imbuti et infecti Romanis delenimentis,

Liv. 40, 11, 3:

imbutus alicujus consiliis,

id. 42, 26, 8:

hac ille crudelitate imbutus,

Cic. Phil. 3, 3, 4:

superstitione,

id. Fin. 1, 18, 60:

sociale bellum macula sceleris imbutum,

id. Font. 14, 31:

colonorum caede imbutis armis,

Liv. 4, 31, 7:

imbutae caede manus,

Ov. A. A. 2, 714:

imbutae praeda manus,

Tac. A. 1, 36.—

In partic.

To inspire or impress early, to accustom, inure, initiate, instruct, imbue:

his ego de artibus gratiam facio, ne colas, ne inbuas eis tuom ingenium,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 17:

quibus ille studiis ab ineunte aetate se imbuerat,

Cic. Deiot. 10, 28; cf.:

animum tenerum opinionibus,

id. Att. 14, 13, B, 4:

variis erroribus,

id. Tusc. 3, 1, 2:

adulescentuli castrensibus stipendiis imbuebantur,

Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 5:

liberaliter educatos servilibus vitiis imbuisse,

Liv. 26, 2, 11:

nemo est tam immanis, cujus mentem non imbuerit deorum opinio,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 13, 30; cf.:

ea pietate omnium pectora imbuerat, ut, etc.,

Liv. 1, 21, 1:

inter novitatem successoris, quae noscendis prius quam agendis rebus inbuenda sit,

id. 41, 15, 8:

imbuendis sociis ad officia legum,

Tac. A. 12, 32:

nec quicquam prius imbuuntur quam contemnere deos,

id. H. 5, 5:

qui honestis sermonibus aures imperatoris imbuant,

id. ib. 4, 7; id. Or. 29; 31:

optume cum domito juvencus imbuitur,

is trained to labor, Plin. 8, 45, 70, § 180.—

To do any thing for the first time, explore, essay, set the example ( poet.):

illa rudem cursu prima imbuit Amphitriten,

was the first to navigate, Cat. 64, 11:

terras vomere,

to plough first, Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 52; Val. Fl. 1, 69:

phialam nectare,

to fill first, Mart. 8, 51, 17: bellum sanguine, to initiate, i. e. to begin, Verg. A. 7, 542; cf. ib. 554:

juvenem primo Hymenaeo (conjux),

Sil. 3, 65:

imbuis exemplum primae tu, Romule, palmae,

begin, set the example, Prop. 4 (5), 10, 5:

opus,

Ov. A. A. 1, 654.—

Esp. in part. perf., somewhat instructed, imbued, initiated, trained:

nos ita a majoribus instituti atque imbuti sumus, ut. etc.,

Cic. Phil. 10, 10, 20; cf.:

et doctrina liberaliter institutus et aliquo jam imbutus usu,

id. de Or. 2, 39, 162:

parentum praeceptis imbuti,

id. Off. 1, 32, 118: imbutus rudimentis militiae, Vell. 2, 129, 2; cf.:

imbutum jam a juventa certaminibus plebeiis,

Liv. 5, 2, 13:

cognitiones verborum, quibus imbuti sumus,

Cic. Fin. 2, 5, 16:

dialecticis imbutus,

id. Tusc. 1, 7, 14; cf.:

litteris saltem leviter imbutus,

Quint. 1, 2, 16:

quasi non perfectum litteris sed imbutum,

Suet. Gramm. 4:

(verna) Litterulis Graecis imbutus,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 7:

ad quam (legem) non docti, sed facti, non instituti, sed imbuti sumus,

Cic. Mil. 4, 10;

so opp. instructus: elementis studiorum etsi non instructus, at certe imbutus,

Tac. Or. 19.— Poet.:

aurea pavonum ridenti imbuta lepore saecla,

endued, Lucr. 2, 502 Munro (dub.; v. Lachm. Lucr. 2, p. 102).

ĭnĭtĭum, ĭi, n. [ineo], a going in, en trance.

A beginning, commencement (syn.: principium, exordium).

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 [p. 956] 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. —

Transf.

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 ( = stoicheia), id. Ac. 1, 7, 26;

so of death: Augustus in sua resolutus initia,

Vell. 2, 123, 3. —

First principles, elements cf a science:

illa initia mathematicorum, quibus non concessis digitum progredi non possunt,

Cic. Ac. 2, 36, 116.—

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.—

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.—

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.—

Things ( musical instruments) used in celebrating these mysteries:

Typanum, tubam, Cybele, tua, mater, initia,

Cat. 63, 9.