prae Preposition

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Translations

  1. in front of
  2. forward [prae sequor => go on before]
(whit abl)
  1. before

Example Sentences

Publius Ovidius Naso

Pan ibi dum teneris iactat sua sibila nymphis et leve cerata modulatur harundine carmen ausus Apollineos prae se contemnere cantus, iudice sub Tmolo certamen venit ad inpar.

~ Ovid, Metamorphoses XI
Gaius Julius Caesar

institueretur: quibusnam manibus aut quibus viribus praesertim homines tantulae staturae (nam plerumque omnibus Gallis prae magnitudine corporum quorum brevitas nostra contemptui est) tanti oneris turrim in muro sese posse conlocare

~ Caesar, Bellum Gallicum II
Hyginus

Phaethon Solis et Clymenes filius cum clam patris currum conscendisset et altius a terra esset elatus, prae timore decidit in flumen Eridanum.

~ Hyginus, Fabulae
Publius Vergilius Maro

nil me fatalia terrent, si qua Phryges prae se iactant, responsa deorum; sat fatis Venerique datum, tetigere quod arva fertilis Ausoniae Troes.

~ Vergil, P. i Maronis Aeneidos Liber Nonvs

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