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praecolo

praecolo, to cultivate beforehand

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

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