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praecelsus

praecelsus, lofty, towering

Frieze-Dennison Vergil

praecelsus , a, um: (adj.), very high, lofty, 3.245.
prae-celsus, a, um, adj., very high or lofty (class.; poet. and late Lat.; cf.: arduus, sublimis, excelsus).
  • I Lit.: rupes, Verg. A. 3, 245; Sulp.Sev. Chron. 2, 15, 9.—
  • II Trop.: Fortuna, Stat. S. 3, 3, 85.—Comp., Ambros. Fid. 4, 1, 7; id. in Luc. 3, 3, 37 (but Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48, § 107, perexcelso, B. and K.).

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