Significatio vocis exōrdium | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. beginning, commencement
   declension-2
2. introduction, preface, start or beginning of a speech
   declension-2
3. foundation, creation
   declension-2

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“Heu quid agat? Quō nunc rēgīnam ambīre furentem”

Oh, what should he do now? How is he to solicit the distraught queen, [and] dare implore her? Which first words ought he choose? (Aeneas commits to leave Carthage and ponders the doubly emphatic “prima exordia.” Idiomatically, what does he even begin to tell Dido? How can he broach the subject with her?)

“ab exordio urbis”

from the founding of the city (especially Rome)

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