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praefringo

praefringo, to break off before, break to pieces, shiver

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Praefractis perfect passive participle feminine ablative plural, perfect passive participle feminine dative plural, perfect passive participle masculine ablative plural, perfect passive participle masculine dative plural, perfect passive participle neuter ablative plural, perfect passive participle neuter dative plural of praefringo

See Praefractis in Morpho

prae-fringo, frēgi, fractum, 3, v. a. [frango],
  • to break off before or at the end, to break to pieces, shiver (class.): ne caulis praefringatur, Cato R. R. 33 (cited by Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 20): hastas, Liv. 8, 10; so, primam aciem telo, to break off the point of the missile, Just. 6, 8, 2: cornu galeae, Liv. 27, 33: praefracto rostro (triremis), Caes. B. C. 2, 6: praefracta strigilis, Lucil. ap. Gell. 3, 14, 10: praefracta ligna, Lucr. 1, 892.
  • —Hence, praefractus, a, um, P. a.
    • A In rhet., broken, abrupt: Thucydides praefractior, Cic. Or. 13, 40.—
    • B In character, stern, harsh, inflexible: Aristo Chius, praefractus, ferreus, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 155, 14: praefractior atque abscissior justitia, Val. Max. 6, 5 fin.: praefractius perseverantiae exemplum, sterner, firmer, id. 3, 8, ext. 3.—Adv.: praefractē, sternly, inflexibly, resolutely: aerarium defendere, Cic. Off. 3, 22, 88 (Non. 155, 11, reads praefractum).—Comp., Val. Max. 9, 7 fin.

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