fama praecucurrit alicui Cs

1) ехать (ездить) впереди, выезжать вперёд ( equites praecurrunt Cs); предшествовать ( certis rebus certa signa praecurrunt C); оказываться впереди, забегать вперёд ( fama praecucurrit alicui Cs)

2) быть предшественником, быть старше ( aliquem aetate C); опережать, перегонять (aliquem H, Sen); упреждать ( alicujus adventum PM); превосходить (alicui studio C; aliquem celeritate Cs)

prae-curro, cŭcurri (curri, Liv. 8, 30, 13 Weissenb.), cursum, 3, v. n. and a., to run before, hasten on before, precede (class.; cf.: antecedo, antevenio).

Lit.:

eā ego huc praecucurri gratiā, ne, etc.,

Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 110:

propere praecucurrit,

Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 11:

praecucurrit index ad Persea,

Liv. 40, 7, 7:

praecurrunt equites,

Caes. B. G. 6, 39:

praecurrit ante omnes,

id. B. C. 2, 34, 5:

citius Petro,

Vulg. Johan. 20, 4.—

Trop., to go on before, precede; to surpass, excel:

eo fama jam praecucurrerat de proelio Dyrrhachino,

Caes. B. C. 3, 80:

ut certis rebus certa signa praecurrerent,

precede, Cic. Div. 1, 52, 118; id. Ac. 1, 12, 45:

alicui studio,

id. Cat. 4, 9, 19; so,

alicui,

id. de Or. 3, 61, 230.—

In gen., to hasten before a person or thing, to precede, go before, anticipate: illud praecurrere cogor, to combat in advance, * Lucr. 1, 371:

aliquem aetate,

Cic. Or. 52, 176:

ita praecurrit amicitia judicium,

id. Lael. 17, 62:

nec appetitus rationem praecurrant,

id. Off. 1, 29, 102.—

In partic., to surpass, excel in any quality:

aliquem,

Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 7, 28:

aliquem nobilitate,

Nep. Thras. 1, 3:

aliquem judicio,

Tac. Or. 22.—Hence, praecurrentĭa, ĭum, n. In rhetoric like antecedentia, things that go before, antecedents, Cic. de Or. 2, 39, 166:

primordia rerum et quasi praecurrentia,

id. Part. 2, 7.—

* Part. perf.: praecursus, a, um, having preceded:

rumore praecurso,

Amm. 18, 2, 1.