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praetento
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Lewis Short
(verb) : prae-tento or praetempto, āvi, ātum, 1
* To feel, search, or grope out beforehand, to examine previously, to estimate beforehand, anticipate (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose): praetentare baculo, luminis orbus, iter,Ov. Ib. 262: praetentat manu silvas,id. M. 14, 189: praetentat pollice chordas,id. ib. 5, 339: pedibus praetentat iter,Tib. 2, 1, 77: cochleae corniculis praetentant iter,Plin. 9, 32, 51, § 101: sinum,Suet. Aug. 35: culcitis et stragulis praetentatis et excussis,id. Claud. 35: fato pericula vestra praetentate meo,Luc. 9, 397.
* Trop., to test or try beforehand: vires,Ov. M. 8, 7: judicis misericordiam,Quint. 4, 1, 28.
* To hold before one's self: praetentat pallia laevā,Claud. B. Gild. 438.
* Trop., to make a pretext of: impia praetentans vulnera,Val. Fl. 6, 75.
* To feel, search, or grope out beforehand, to examine previously, to estimate beforehand, anticipate (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose): praetentare baculo, luminis orbus, iter,Ov. Ib. 262: praetentat manu silvas,id. M. 14, 189: praetentat pollice chordas,id. ib. 5, 339: pedibus praetentat iter,Tib. 2, 1, 77: cochleae corniculis praetentant iter,Plin. 9, 32, 51, § 101: sinum,Suet. Aug. 35: culcitis et stragulis praetentatis et excussis,id. Claud. 35: fato pericula vestra praetentate meo,Luc. 9, 397.
* Trop., to test or try beforehand: vires,Ov. M. 8, 7: judicis misericordiam,Quint. 4, 1, 28.
* To hold before one's self: praetentat pallia laevā,Claud. B. Gild. 438.
* Trop., to make a pretext of: impia praetentans vulnera,Val. Fl. 6, 75.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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