LAT
praeripio
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Lewis Short
(verb) : prae-rĭpĭo, rĭpui, reptum, 3, rapio.
* In gen., to take away a thing before another, to snatch or tear away, to carry off (class.): quid huc venisti sponsam praereptum meam?Plaut. Cas. 1, 14: Tun meo patre es prognatus? Men. Immo equidem, meo. Tuom tibi ego neque occupare neque praeripere postulo, id. Men. 5, 9, 21: aliquem alicui,Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 81: maritum,Vulg. Gen. 30, 15: arma Minervae,Ov. Am. 1, 1, 7: aliis laudem,Cic. Rosc. Am. 1, 2; Hirt. B. G. 8, prooem. § 5: cum ea praerepta et extorta defensioni suae cerneret, in quibus, etc.,Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 16; cf. Hirt. ap. Suet. Caes. 56: alicui cibos,Plin. 10, 9, 11, § 27.
* In partic.
* To snatch away before the time, to carry off prematurely: deorum beneficium festinatione,Cic. Phil. 14, 2, 2: immaturā morte praereptus,Aur. Vict. Vir. Ill. 5: brevibus praereptus in annis, snatched away prematurely, sc. by death, Val. Fl. 5, 571: IN PRIMO AETATIS FLORE PRAEREPTVS,Inscr. Grut. 350, 6.
* To take away quickly: oscula,to snatch kisses,Lucr. 3, 896: codicillos, to take or seize hastily, Suet. Ner. 49.
* To forestall, anticipate: non praeripiam,I will not anticipate,Cic. Att. 10, 1, 2: hostium consilia,baffle in advance,id. Off. 1, 30, 108: scelere praerepto doles,Sen. Thyest. 1104.
* With se, to take one's self off hastily, to make one's escape: praeripuit se ad amicum,Dig. 21, 1, 17.
* In gen., to take away a thing before another, to snatch or tear away, to carry off (class.): quid huc venisti sponsam praereptum meam?Plaut. Cas. 1, 14: Tun meo patre es prognatus? Men. Immo equidem, meo. Tuom tibi ego neque occupare neque praeripere postulo, id. Men. 5, 9, 21: aliquem alicui,Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 81: maritum,Vulg. Gen. 30, 15: arma Minervae,Ov. Am. 1, 1, 7: aliis laudem,Cic. Rosc. Am. 1, 2; Hirt. B. G. 8, prooem. § 5: cum ea praerepta et extorta defensioni suae cerneret, in quibus, etc.,Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 16; cf. Hirt. ap. Suet. Caes. 56: alicui cibos,Plin. 10, 9, 11, § 27.
* In partic.
* To snatch away before the time, to carry off prematurely: deorum beneficium festinatione,Cic. Phil. 14, 2, 2: immaturā morte praereptus,Aur. Vict. Vir. Ill. 5: brevibus praereptus in annis, snatched away prematurely, sc. by death, Val. Fl. 5, 571: IN PRIMO AETATIS FLORE PRAEREPTVS,Inscr. Grut. 350, 6.
* To take away quickly: oscula,to snatch kisses,Lucr. 3, 896: codicillos, to take or seize hastily, Suet. Ner. 49.
* To forestall, anticipate: non praeripiam,I will not anticipate,Cic. Att. 10, 1, 2: hostium consilia,baffle in advance,id. Off. 1, 30, 108: scelere praerepto doles,Sen. Thyest. 1104.
* With se, to take one's self off hastily, to make one's escape: praeripuit se ad amicum,Dig. 21, 1, 17.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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