beforehand

prae-occŭpo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (class., but not in Cic., since praecepit is the true read., Cic. Phil. 10, 1, 2).

To seize upon, to take possession of or occupy beforehand, to preoccupy.

Lit.:

hic ne intrare posset saltum, Datames praeoccupare studuit,

Nep. Dat. 7, 2:

Macedoniam,

id. Eum. 2, 4:

loca opportuna,

Liv. 44, 3; 35, 28; 42, 47:

iter,

Caes. B. C. 3, 13:

Asiam,

Vell. 2, 69, 2; cf.:

praeoccupatum sese legatione ab Cn. Pompeio,

Caes. B. C. 2, 17.—

To take, catch, detect, seize in an act:

si praeoccupatus fuerit homo in delicto,

Vulg. Gal. 6, 1.—

Trop.:

animos timor praeoccupaverat,

Caes. B. G. 6, 41, 3:

hilaritas praeoccupaverat mentes,

Petr. 113:

praeoccupati beneficio animi,

i. e. won over beforehand, Liv. 6, 20, 10:

aures,

id. 38, 10.—

To anticipate, prevent:

ne alter alterum praeoccuparet,

Nep. Dion, 4, 1.—With obj.clause (like the simpler occupare):

legem de multarum aestimatione ipsi praeoccupaverunt ferre,

hastened to bring the bill sooner before the people, Liv. 4, 30, 3.

praesumptĭo, ōnis, f. [praesumo].

A taking beforehand, a using or enjoying in advance, anticipation:

rerum, quas assequi cupias, praesumptio ipsa jucunda est,

Plin. Ep. 4, 15, 11:

bonae famae praesumptione perfrui,

id. ib. 9, 3, 1.—

In rhet., a taking up and answering in advance, an anticipation of possible or suspected objections: mire in causis valet praesumptio, quae prolêpsis dicitur, cum id, quod obici potest, occupamus, Quint. 9, 2, 16; 9, 2, 18.—

A representing to one's self beforehand, a conception, supposition, presumption:

multum dare solemus praesumptioni omnium hominum,

Sen. Ep. 117, 5:

cum contra praesumptionem suam annis decem in obsidione tenerentur,

Just. 3, 4:

non levi praesumptione credere,

Dig. 41, 3, 44.—

In partic.

Boldness, confidence, assurance, audacity, presumption (post-class.):

illicitā praesumptione rex ad vicem sacerdotis holocaustum obtulit,

Sulp. Sev. Hist. Sacr. 1, 33:

timor fundamentum salutis, praesumptio impedimentum timoris,

Tert. Cult. Fem. 2:

cassa,

App. Mag. p. 323, 17.—

Stubbornness, obstinacy:

mirā contra plagarum dolores praesumptione munitus,

App. M. 8, p. 214, 31:

obfirmatus summā praesumptione,

id. ib. 10, p. 243, 25.—

Prejudice, Tert. Apol. 49.

prae-vĕnĭo, vēni, ventum, 4 (in tmesi:

praeque diem veniens,

Verg. E. 8, 17), v. n. and a., to come before, precede, get the start of, to outstrip, anticipate, to prevent (postAug.; for, in Cic. Off. 3, 7, 33, the correct reading is peremisset; cf.: antevenio, antecedo, praeverto); constr. absol. or with acc.

Lit., absol.:

hostis breviore viā praeventurus erat,

Liv. 22, 24:

praevenerat non fama solum, sed nuncius etiam ex regiis servis,

id. 24, 21:

Lucifero praeveniente,

Ov. F. 5, 548.—

With acc.:

talia agentem mors praevenit,

anticipated him, prevented the execution of his plans, Suet. Caes. 44:

desiderium plebis,

Liv. 8, 16:

damnationis ignominiam voluntariā morte praevenit,

anticipated, Val. Max. 1, 3, 3.—In pass., to be prevented, hindered, etc.:

quae ipse paravisset facere, perfidiā clientis sui praeventa,

Sall. J. 71, 5:

quod non praeventum morte fuisse, dolet,

prevented by death, Ov. Tr. 5, 4, 32:

peregissetque ultionem, nisi morte praeventus fuisset,

Just. 32, 3:

praeventus est ab Agrippinā,

Suet. Claud. 44; Plin. Ep. 9, 1, 3:

nisi praeveniretur Agrippina,

i. e. if she had not been killed beforehand, Tac. A. 14, 7:

si maritus sit in magistratu, potest praeveniri a patre,

the father can bring the accusation first, Dig. 48, 5, 15.—

To come or go beforehand (late Lat.):

ut praeveniant ad vos,

Vulg. 2 Cor. 9, 5:

praevenit ungere corpus meum,

id. Marc. 14, 8.—

Trop., to surpass, excel, be superior (post-Aug.):

Nomentanae vites fecunditate (Amineas) praeveniunt,

Col. 3, 2, 14.

prae-vĭdĕo, vīdi, vīsum, 2, v. a., to see first or beforehand, to foresee.

Lit. ( poet.):

ictum venientem a vertice,

Verg. A. 5, 444:

an, quia praevisos in aquā timet hostia cultros?

Ov. F. 1, 327:

cultri in liquidā praevisi undā,

Ov. M. 15, 135.—

Transf., mentally,

To foresee, anticipate, discern beforehand (class.):

de re publicā, quam praevideo in summis periculis,

Cic. Att. 6, 9, 5:

praevisā locorum utilitate,

Tac. A. 12, 63:

nec praeviderant impetum hostium milites, nec, si praevidissent, satis virium ad arcendum erat,

id. H. 4, 15; Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 13; Tac. A. 12, 40:

non tantum praevisa, sed subita expedire,

id. ib. 14, 55:

praevisum periculum subterfugere,

Suet. Aug. 10. —

To provide (late Lat.):

quod ne fieret consilio solerti praevidit,

Amm. 21, 8, 3.

prō-dīco, xi, ctum, 3, v. a.

To say beforehand, to fix or appoint beforehand (very rare):

prodictā die,

Cic. Dom. 17, 45 (dub.).—

To put off, defer (not in Cic. or Cæs.):

diem prodicere,

to adjourn the time of trial, Liv. 2, 61, 7; v. Weissenb. ad loc.; Liv. 6, 20, 11; 38, 51, 5:

ubi praetor reo atque accusatoribus diem prodixisset,

Tac. A. 2, 79 (in Cic. N. D. 2, 3, 7, the true read. is praedici; Cic. Div. 1, 42, 93, praedicunt).

prō-mitto, mīsi, missum, 3 (sync. forms:

promisti for promisisti,

Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 17; Cat. 110, 3:

promisse for promisisse,

id. 110, 5:

promissem,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 12; archaic inf. pass. promittier, id. ib. 4, 8, 32), v. a.

Lit., to let go forward, to send or put forth, to let hang down, let grow, etc. (rare;

not in Cic.): ramos vel ferro compescunt vel longius promittunt,

suffer to grow longer, Col. 5, 6, 11.—Reflex., to grow:

nec ulla arborum avidius se promittit,

Plin. 16, 26, 44, § 107.—Of the hair, the beard, to let hang down, let grow:

satis constat multos mortales capillum ac barbam promisisse,

Liv. 6, 16, 4; 5, 41; cf.:

pogoniae, quibus inferiore ex parte promittitur juba,

Plin. 2, 25, 22, § 89.— Transf.:

(Sonus lusciniae) promittitur revocato spiritu,

is drawn out, prolonged, Plin. 10, 29, 43, § 82;

Gallia est longe et a nostris litoribus huc usque promissa,

Mel. 1, 3; v. infra, P. a.—

Trop., of speech.

To say beforehand, to forebode, foretell, predict, prophesy (very rare):

praesertim cum, si mihi alterum utrum de eventu rerum promittendum esset, id futurum, quod evenit, exploratius possem promittere,

Cic. Fam. 6, 1, 5:

ut (di) primis minentur extis, bene promittant secundis,

id. Div. 2, 17, 38.—Of signs or omens, to forebode, portend:

pari in meliora praesagio in Caesaris castris omnia aves victimaeque promiserant,

Flor. 4, 7, 9:

promittunt omina poenas,

Val. Fl. 6, 730: clarum fore (Servium) visa circa caput flamma promiserat, Flor 1, 6, 1; 1, 7, 9.—Also, in gen., to denote beforehand:

stella... vindemiae maturitatem promittens,

Plin. 18, 31, 74, § 309.—

To promise, hold out, cause to expect, give hope or promise of, assure (class. and freq.; syn.: polliceor, spondeo, recipio), constr. with acc., an object-clause, or de:

domum,

Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 28:

sestertia septem,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 81:

carmen,

id. Epod. 14, 7, dona, Ov Tr. 4, 2, 7:

auxilium alicui,

id. M. 13, 325:

opem,

id. F 5, 247:

salutem,

Luc. 4, 235:

ea quae tibi promitto ac recipio,

Cic. Fam. 5, 8, 5:

si Neptunus quod Theseo promiserat, non fecisset,

id. Off. 1, 10, 32:

dii faxint, ut faciat ea quae promittit!

id. Att. 16, 1, 6.— With inf. (usu. fut. inf.):

promitto, recipio, spondeo, C. Caesarem talem semper fore civem, qualis hodie sit,

Cic. Phil. 5, 18, 51; cf.:

promitto, in meque recipio fore eum, etc.,

id. Fam. 13, 10, 3:

quem inimicissimum futurum esse promitto et spondeo,

id. Mur. 41, 90:

surrepturum pallam promisit tibi,

Plaut. As. 5, 2, 80; id. Aul. 2, 2, 42; cf. id. Men. 5, 4, 6:

promisit Apollo Ambiguam tellure novā Salamina futuram,

Hor. C. 1, 7, 28; id. S. 1, 6, 34.—With inf. pres.:

si operam dare promittitis,

Plaut. Trin. prol. 5; id. Bacch. 4, 8, 79; id. Rud. 2, 6, 56: magorum vanitas ebrietati eas resistere [p. 1465] promittit, Plin. 37, 9, 40, § 124; cf.:

se remedium afferer tantamque vim morbi levaturum esse promisit,

Curt. 3, 6, 2 monstrare, Amm. 22, 7, 5:

promittere oratorem,

to give promise of becoming, Sen. Contr 4, 29, 10; cf.:

per ea scelera se parricidam,

excite fears lest he become, Quint. Decl. 1, 6:

me Promisi ultorem,

Verg. A. 2, 96.—With de:

de alicujus voluntate promittere,

Cic. Fam. 7, 5, 1:

de me tibi sic promitto atque confirmo, me, etc.,

id. ib. 3, 10, 1; Hor. S. 1, 4, 103:

promittere damni infecti,

i. e. to promise indemnification for, become answerable for the possible damage, Cic. Top 4, 22.—

With ut and subj.:

promiserat ut daret,

Vulg. 2 Par. 21, 7.—Of things' terra ipsa promittit (aquas), gives promise of, leads one to expect water, Plin. 31, 3, 27, § 45:

debet extremitas (picturae) sic desinere, ut promittat alia post se,

to lead one to suppose, to suggest, id. 35, 10, 36, § 68; Sen. Hippol. 569.—

In partic.

To promise to come, to engage one's self to meet any one, to dine, sup, etc., Plaut. Stich. 3, 2, 19 sq.; 4, 2, 16:

ad fratrem,

Cic. de Or. 2, 7, 27:

ad cenam mihi,

Phaedr. 4, 23, 15; Petr. 10; so,

tibi me promittere noli,

to expect me, Ov. M. 11, 662.—

To promise something to a deity, i. e. to vow:

donum Jovi dicatum atque promissum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 72, § 184:

nigras pecudes Diti,

Tib. 3, 5, 33; Juv 13, 233; Petr 88; Flor. 1, 11, 4.—

To offer as a price (post-Aug.):

pro domo sestertium millies promittens,

Plin. 17. 1, 1, § 3. —Hence, prōmissus, a, um, P a.

Lit., hanging down, long; of the hair: coma, Varr. ap. Non. 362, 32; Liv. 38, 17, 3; Ov. Tr. 4, 2, 34:

Britanni capillo sunt promisso,

Caes. B. G. 5, 14; so,

capillus,

Nep. Dat. 3, 1:

barba,

Verg. E. 8, 34; Liv. 2, 23, 4:

barba omnibus promissa erat,

id. 5, 41, 9; Plin. Ep. 2, 7, 7; Just. 4, 4, 1.—Of the dewlap:

boves palearibus amplis et paene ad genua promissis,

Col. 6, 1, 3.—Of the belly:

sues ventre promisso,

Col. 7, 9, 1.—

Subst.: prōmissum, i, n., a promise (very freq. in prose and poetry; cf.

promissio, pollicitatio),

Cic. Verr 2, 5, 53, § 139:

voto quodam et promisso teneri,

id. Att. 12, 18, 1:

constantia promissi,

id. ib. 4, 17, 1:

promissum absolvere,

Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 1:

facere,

Cic. Off. 1, 10, 31; 3, 25, 95:

exigere,

id. ib. 3, 25, 94:

ludere aliquem promisso inani,

Ov. F. 3, 685.—In plur.:

pacta et promissa servare,

Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92:

illis promissis standum non est, quae, etc.,

id. ib. 1, 10, 32:

promissis manere,

Verg. A. 2, 160:

promissa firmare,

Ov. M. 10, 430:

multa fidem promissa levant,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 10:

dic aliquid dignum promissis,

id. S. 2, 3, 6:

quo promissa (Ennii) cadant,

i. e. the expectations which he raises, id. Ep. 2, 1, 52:

promissa dare,

to make promises, Cat. 63, 239; to fulfil, Ov. M. 2, 51.

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