inceptio

Updated: May 1, 2025

In the metrical calendar of Oengus, the feast is assigned to the 3rd May, and in his Leabhar Breac, the scribe adds the Latin note, "Feir mar Muire et reliqua, i.e., inceptio ejus ut alii putant sed in februo mense vel in Martio facta est illa, quae post VII. menses nata est, ut innaratur vel quae libet alia feria ejus."

Edward J. Quigley - The Divine Office

In the altercations between the two brothers, in Æschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, this conceit is employed; and it is remarkable, that so poor a conundrum could not be rejected by any of these three poets, so justly celebrated for their taste and simplicity. What could Shakspeare have done worse? Terence has his "inceptio est amentium, non amanthim."

David Hume - The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D.: From Elizabeth to James I.