I.a taking in hand, undertaking (good prose): “quae proficiscuntur a virtute, susceptione primā, non perfectione, recta sunt judicanda,” Cic. Fin. 3, 9, 32: “laborum dolorumque,” id. Ac. 1, 6, 23: “causae,” id. Mur. 1, 2: “rerum istarum,” Gell. 9, 3, 5.—
II. An acceptance: “fidelium,” Ambros. in Luc. 6, 6.