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Lewis Short
praecursor (noun M) : id.
* One who runs before.
* A forerunner, precursor, of a servant, Plin. Pan. 76fin.; one who precedes on the same path, Lact. 6, 7, 3.— Esp.,the forerunner of Christ, John the Baptist,Aug. Tract. in Johan. 4, 6; 4, 8.
* Trop.: flos praecursor indolis bonae,Nazar. Pan. Const. 3 med.
* In milit. lang., an advanced guard, vanguard, Liv. 26, 17 fin.
* Transf., a scout, spy (cf.: emissarius, speculator),Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 41, § 108.
* One who runs before.
* A forerunner, precursor, of a servant, Plin. Pan. 76fin.; one who precedes on the same path, Lact. 6, 7, 3.— Esp.,the forerunner of Christ, John the Baptist,Aug. Tract. in Johan. 4, 6; 4, 8.
* Trop.: flos praecursor indolis bonae,Nazar. Pan. Const. 3 med.
* In milit. lang., an advanced guard, vanguard, Liv. 26, 17 fin.
* Transf., a scout, spy (cf.: emissarius, speculator),Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 41, § 108.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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