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praesterno
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Lewis Short
(verb) : prae-sterno, ĕre
* To strew or spread beforehand, to prepare (mostly anteand post-class.): eo praesternebant folia farferi (al. prosternebant),Plaut. Poen. 2, 32: altaria,to prepare,Stat. S. 3, 2, 114: jubet serta et elysios animae praesternere flores,id. ib. 5, 2, 257.—Pass. fig.: tuis laudibus tuisque virtutibus materiam campumque praesterni,Plin. Pan. 31, 1: illud peto, praesternas, etc. (al. less correctly, praestruas),Plin. Ep. 5, 8, 14.
* To strew or spread beforehand, to prepare (mostly anteand post-class.): eo praesternebant folia farferi (al. prosternebant),Plaut. Poen. 2, 32: altaria,to prepare,Stat. S. 3, 2, 114: jubet serta et elysios animae praesternere flores,id. ib. 5, 2, 257.—Pass. fig.: tuis laudibus tuisque virtutibus materiam campumque praesterni,Plin. Pan. 31, 1: illud peto, praesternas, etc. (al. less correctly, praestruas),Plin. Ep. 5, 8, 14.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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