The curious Assimilation of coepi and desino to the Mood of a Passive Infinitive in classical Latin, urbs coepta est (desita est) oppugnari (cf. Men. 718 “itaque adeo iure coepta appellari est canes”), instead of coepit (desiit), has a slightly wider range in Early Latin, e.g.
- frag. 109 “retrahi nequitur”,
- Rud. 1064 “ut nequitur comprimi!”,
- Ter. Hec. 572 “forma in tenebris nosci non quita est”,
- Eun. 22 “magistratus quom ibi adesset, occeptast agi”,
- Caecilius 279 “si non sarciri quitur”,
- Pacuvius 390 “sed quom contendi nequitum vi”,
- Accius 664 “neque vi impelli neque prece quitus sum”,
- Pacuvius 100 “siqua potestur investigari via”
