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praesterno

prae-sterno, ĕre, v. a.,
  • to strew or spread beforehand, to prepare (mostly ante- and post-class.): eo praesternebant folia farferi (al. prosternebant), Plaut. Poen. 2, 32 (480): altaria, to prepare, Stat. S. 3, 2, 114: jubet serta et elysios animae praesternere flores, id. ib. 5, 2, 257.—Pass. fig.: tuis laudibus tuisque virtutibus materiam campumque praesterni, Plin. Pan. 31, 1: illud peto, praesternas, etc. (al. less correctly, praestruas), Plin. Ep. 5, 8, 14.

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