strike up
STRIKE UP
(a tune) incipere (cantum); (a friendship) pervenire in amicitiam; jungere amicitias; se conjungere societatem inire cum aliquo; se applicare ad alicujus societatem (Nep.).
(a tune) incipere (cantum); (a friendship) pervenire in amicitiam; jungere amicitias; se conjungere societatem inire cum aliquo; se applicare ad alicujus societatem (Nep.).
strike up:
I. Lit.: of music: to begin to sing: Phr.: to s. up a song, movere cantum, Virg. Aen. 10, 163: s. up (a song), incipe, id. E. 9, 32: the flute-players struck up, tibicines canere incoeptabant, Gell. 1, 11, post init.: cf. occipere cantionem, Pl. Stich. 5, 5, 19. Also, of instruments, to begin to play: the flute s.s up, (tibia) praemonstrat modos, based on Gell. 1, 11, post med.: as soon as the trumpets struck up, simulac tubarum est auditus cantus (Georg.).
II. Fig.: to strike up a friendship: Phr.: conferre se ad amicitiam alicujus, Cic. Brut. 81, 281: ad amicitiam alicujus accedere, Nep. Eum. 1, med.: amicitiam comparare, based on Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 111: amicitiam et consuetudinem cum aliquo conjungere, id. Deiot. 9, 27: cf. amicitias facere, fingere, instituere, id. (v. Nizol. Lex. Cic. s. v. amicitia).
I. Lit.: of music: to begin to sing: Phr.: to s. up a song, movere cantum, Virg. Aen. 10, 163: s. up (a song), incipe, id. E. 9, 32: the flute-players struck up, tibicines canere incoeptabant, Gell. 1, 11, post init.: cf. occipere cantionem, Pl. Stich. 5, 5, 19. Also, of instruments, to begin to play: the flute s.s up, (tibia) praemonstrat modos, based on Gell. 1, 11, post med.: as soon as the trumpets struck up, simulac tubarum est auditus cantus (Georg.).
II. Fig.: to strike up a friendship: Phr.: conferre se ad amicitiam alicujus, Cic. Brut. 81, 281: ad amicitiam alicujus accedere, Nep. Eum. 1, med.: amicitiam comparare, based on Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 111: amicitiam et consuetudinem cum aliquo conjungere, id. Deiot. 9, 27: cf. amicitias facere, fingere, instituere, id. (v. Nizol. Lex. Cic. s. v. amicitia).