orsus

ūs, m.

ordior

I. a beginning, commencement; an undertaking, attempt (poet.): pectoris, Cic. poët. Div. 2, 30, 63: tenuis, Verg. Cul. 1.

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Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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