(adjective) : Praeneste, is, n. and f., = Πραίνεστος or Πραίνεστε
* One of the most ancient and important cities of Latium, famed for the beauty of its roses, for its nuts, and still more for its temple of Fortune and the oracle connected with it, now Palestrina; abl., Praeneste, Cic. Planc. 26; Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 2: Praeneste sub ipsā (sc. urbe),Verg. A. 8, 561: altum Praeneste,id. ib. 7, 682: frigidum,Hor. C. 3, 4, 22: sacrum,Stat. S. 4, 4, 15.—Hence
* Praenestīnus, a, um, , of or belonging to Proeneste, Proenestine: nuces,Cato, R. R. 8: urbs,the town of Proeneste,Verg. A. 7, 678: Praenestinae moenia sacra Deae, i. e. Fortunae,Ov. F. 6, 62: sortes,the oracles of Proeneste,Cic. Div. 2, 41, 86: ager,id. Agr. 2, 28: rosae,Plin. 21, 4, 10, § 16: via,from Rome to Proeneste,id. 31, 3, 25, § 42.—Subst.: Prae-nestīni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Proeneste, the Proenestines, Plaut. Truc. 3, 2, 23; id. Trin. 3, 1, 8 Brix ad loc.; Liv. 6, 21 sq.; v. Ritschl, Opusc. 2, 372.