praestructus

prae-strŭo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a., to build before, as a preparation for other buildings, to lay a foundation:

praestructa (opp. ea) quae superposita incumbent,

Col. 1, 5, 9.—

Transf., to build up in front, to block or stop up, to make impassable or inaccessible (mostly poet.):

ille aditum vasti praestruxerat obice montis,

Ov. F. 1, 563:

hospitis effugio praestruxerat omnia Minos,

id. A. A. 2, 21:

porta Fonte praestructa,

stopped up, id. M. 14, 797; cf.:

densato scutorum compage se scientissime praestruebant,

Amm. 14, 2, 10.—

Trop., to make ready or prepare beforehand for any thing: fraus fidem in parvis sibi praestruit, prepares or secures for itself credibility in trifles, Liv. 28, 42, 7:

praestruit ad illud quod dicturus est, multa esse crimina in Verre quae, etc.,

Ascon. ad Cic. Div. in Caecil. 8: tacitas vindictae iras. Claud. ap. Ruf. 2, 280:

prius agmina saevo praestrue Marti,

id. IV. Cons. Hon. 319.—

To arrange or contrive beforehand: cum praestructum utrumque consulto esset, whereas [p. 1432] it had all been concerted beforehand, Suet. Tib. 53:

id scilicet praestruentes,

Amm. 31, 7.—Hence, praestructus, a, um, P. a., prepared:

praestructum bellis civilibus hostem,

Claud. B. Gild. 285.