praecolo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

prae-cŏlo, no perf., cultum, 3, v. a.

I To cultivate beforehand , trop.: animi habitus, ad virtutem quasi praeculti et praeparati, Cic. Part. 23, 80.—

II To honor , esteem , revere beforehand : nova et ancipitia (i. e. ante tempus opportunum colere), Tac. A. 14, 22.

III —Hence, praecŭltus , a, um, P. a. (acc. to I.), highly ornamented (postAug.): tunc donis sacro praeculta auro, Stat. Th. 2, 298: genus eloquentiae praecultum, Quint. 11, 1, 31.

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