start (subs.) Copy link Outline I. A sudden motion of the body from fear or surpriseII. A beginning1. ĭnĭtium2. ĭnĭtus mŏvendi, Lucr. 1, 384III. A setting out • start (subs.): I. A sudden motion of the body from fear or surprise: perh. repens tremor: subita trepidatio: to wake up with a s., repente excuti somno: cf. Virg. Aen. 2, 302. II. A beginning: 1. ĭnĭtium: it takes its s. from the Rhone, i. capit a flumine Rhodano, Caes. B. G. 1, 1: to make a bad s., male ponere initia, Cic. Att. 10, 18. 2. ĭnĭtus mŏvendi, Lucr. 1, 384: initus motus, id. 2, 269. III. A setting out: prŏfectio, ōnis, f.: to get ready for a s., pr. parare, Caes. B. C. 1, 27. Phr.: to make a fresh s. in life, ad carceres a calce revocari, Cic. de Sen. 23, 83: when you have as it were just made a s., tanquam a carceribus emissus, id. Am. 27: to give the signal for a s., mittere mappam, Mart. 12, 29, 9: (cf. Ov. M. 10, 652, the trumpets had given the signal for a s., signa tubae dederant): to get the s. of any one, occupare aliquem., cf. Cic. Tusc. 5, 9, 27: Antony had two days' s. of me, biduo me A. antecessit, id. Fam. 11, 13: I wonder where I got the s. of her, miror ubi ego huic anteverterim, Ter. Eun. 4, 5, 12: the king had got a considerable s., aliquantum viae praeceperat rex, Liv. 36, 19: the enemy was likely by a short cut to get a s., hostis breviore via praeventurus erat, Liv. 22, 24.