START Copy link • START 1. v. Intransitively, To startle, concitari terrore et metu: metu concuti: commoveri, percelli re nova, stupere: stupescere. To start back, resilire; resultare: to start at anything, refugere, timere, vereri, horrere, reformidare aliquid: a horse starts, equus consternatur. To make a beginning, incipere: initium facere. To set out, abire: proficisci. To start from a certain place, excurrere; e carceribus emitti (in a race). To burst asunder, dissiliri: rumpi. Transitively, To arouse, excitare: ciere. To set on foot, rei initium facere: aggredi aliquid or ad aliquid faciendum (e.g., ad hanc disputationem, ad dicendum, Cic.; also accusative only, ancipitem causam, Cic.; in Sall. always accusative only; in poetical and post-Augustan prose, infinitive): fundamenta rei ponere or jacere. To start a question, rem commovere (quae, etc., Cic., Brut., 87, 297). To burst, rumpere. 2. s. Sudden action of the body from fear, repens terror. A sudden impulse or rousing, impetus: impulsus. A beginning, initium. A setting out, profectus. To have made a false start, ad carceres revocari (effect for cause). Advance, precedence, plus viae confectum. To have the start of anybody, praecipere iter alicui (Liv., 3, 46); antecedere, antecessisse aliquem (to have got before anybody): the king had got a considerable start, aliquantum viae rex praeceperat (Liv., 36, 19), or longius spatium praeceperat (e.g., fuga, Liv., 22, 41): to have scarcely four hours’ start of anybody, vix quatuor horarum spatio antecedere (to be hardly four hours’ march ahead, Caes.): Antony had got two days’ start of me, biduo me Antonius antecessit (Brut, ap. Cic., Ep., 11, 13).