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praetexo

  • 1 praetexo

    praetexere, praetexui, praetextus V
    weave in front, fringe; cloak (with); pretend

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  • 2 praetexo

    prae-texo, xŭi, xtum, 3, v. a., to weave before or in front, to fringe, edge, border.
    I.
    Lit. (mostly poet.):

    purpura saepe tuos fulgens praetexit amictus,

    Ov. P. 3, 8, 7:

    glaucas comis praetexere frondes,

    weave around, Val. Fl. 3, 436; Plin. 16, 1, 1, § 4:

    praetexit arundine ripas Mincius,

    Verg. E. 7, 12:

    litora curvae Praetexunt puppes,

    id. A. 6, 5:

    fontem violis, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 249: limina ramis, Rapt. Pros. 2, 320: ripam ulvis,

    Aus. Idyll. 10, 45:

    sicubi odoratas praetexit amaracus umbras,

    spreads over, Col. 10, 297.—In mid. force:

    utraeque nationes Rheno praetexuntur,

    border on the Rhine, Tac. G. 34.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    To place before or in front (syn.:

    praetendo, praepono): in his voluminibus auctorum nomina praetexui, Plin. praef. § 21: auctores quos praetexuimus volumini huic,

    id. 18, 25, 57, § 212:

    tibi maximus honor excubare pro templis, postibusque praetexi,

    i. e. that your statues stand before the temples, Plin. Pan. 52.—
    2.
    To border, to furnish, provide, or adorn with any thing: ex primo versu cujusque sententiae primis litteris illius sententiae carmen omne praetexitur, the whole poem is bordered (like an acrostic) with the initial letters from the first verse of every sentence (oracle), Cic. Div. 2, 54, 112: omnia quae aguntur acerrime, lenioribus principiis natura praetexuit, has provided with, etc., id. de Or. 2, 78, 317:

    praetexta quercu domus,

    Ov. F. 4, 953; 5, 567:

    summaque praetexat tenuis fastigia chartae, Indicet ut nomen, littera facta, meum,

    let my name be inscribed upon it, Tib. 3, 1, 11.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    To allege as an excuse, to pretend, to assign as a pretext (syn. causor):

    cupiditatem triumphi,

    Cic. Pis. 24, 56:

    nomina speciosa,

    Tac. H. 1, 72.—With acc. and inf.:

    ubicumque ipsi essent, praetexentes esse rempublicam,

    Vell. 2, 62, 3:

    Tigellinus T. Vinii potentia defensus, praetexentis, servatam ab eo filiam,

    Tac. H. 1, 72.—
    B.
    To cover, cloak, conceal, disguise with any thing:

    hoc praetexit nomine culpam,

    Verg. A. 4, 172:

    funera sacris,

    id. ib. 4, 500:

    fraudem blando risu,

    Claud. Ruf. 1, 99.—Hence, praetextus, a, um, P. a., clothed with or wearing the toga praetexta:

    praetextus senatus (for praetextā in dutus),

    Prop. 4 (5), 1, 11:

    pubes,

    Aus. Prof. 18, 7.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    Toga praetexta, and (post-Aug.) absol.: praetexta, ae, f., the outer garment, bordered with purple, worn at Rome by the higher magistrates and by free-born children till they assumed the toga virilis, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 14, § 36; 2, 1, 44, § 113; id. Q. Fr. 2, 12, 2; Liv. 27, 37; 33, 42; Plin. 9, 39, 63, § 136; 33, 1, 4, § 10 et saep.: praetextā pullā nulli alii licebat uti, quam ei, qui funus faciebat, Paul. ex Fest. p. 236 Müll.—Hence,
    b.
    praetexta, ae, f. (sc. fabula), a tragedy, because celebrated Romans (like Brutus, Decius, Marcellus) were represented in it:

    nostri vestigia Graeca Ausi deserere, et celebrare domestica facta, Vel qui praetextas vel qui docuere togatas,

    Hor. A. P. 286; Pollio ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 3:

    praetextam legere,

    id. ib. 10, 32, 5.—
    2.
    praetextum, i, n.
    a.
    An ornament, as something wrought or fastened in front (post - Aug.):

    pulcherrimum reipublicae praetextum,

    Sen. Ep. 71, 9.—
    b.
    A pretence, [p. 1436] pretext, excuse (post-Aug.; cf.:

    species, simulatio): et praetextum quidem illi civilium armorum hoc fuit: causas autem alias fuisse opinantur,

    Suet. Caes. 30: ad praetextum mutatae voluntatis, under pretext or color of, id. Aug. 12:

    ipse Ravennam devertit praetexto classem alloquendi,

    under pretext, Tac. H. 2, 100:

    praetexto reipublicae,

    id. ib. 3, 80; Sen. Contr. 4, 25, 14.

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  • 3 praetextus

    1.
    praetextus, a, um, Part. and P. a., from praetexo.
    2.
    praetextus, ūs (but found only in abl. sing.; cf. praetextum, s. v. praetexo fin.), m. [praetexo].
    I.
    Outward appearance, show, ornament, display, splendor, consequence (post-Aug.):

    majore praetextu,

    Tac. H. 1, 19:

    praetextu senatūs,

    id. ib. 1, 76:

    plurimorum et maximorum operum praetextu,

    Val. Max. 4, 4, 1; Manil. 3, 129. —
    II.
    A pretence, pretext, color (not anteAug.):

    decretum sub leni praetextu verborum factum est,

    Liv. 36, 6, 5:

    sub praetextu,

    Petr. 97:

    hoc praetextu,

    under this pretence, Just. 29, 3: latrocinii, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 10, 8.

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  • 4 praetextum

        praetextum ī, n    [P. n. of praetexo], a pretence, excuse: Ravennam devertit praetexto classem adloquendi, Ta.
    * * *
    pretence; pretext

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  • 5 praetextus

        praetextus adj.    [P. of praetexo], bordered, edged: toga, bordered with purple (worn by the higher magistrates; also by free-born children less than seventeen years of age): aedilicia: togae praetextae habendae ius, L.: eripies pupillae togam praetextam?—As subst f., the toga praetexta: tu in praetextā esse consulatum putas?— Wearing the toga praetexta, with a purple border on the mantle: videre praetextos inimicos, i. e. in supreme power.—As subst f. (sc. fabula), a play in which the bordered toga is worn, tragedy (because eminent Romans were among the characters): praetextas docere, H.
    * * *
    praetexta, praetextum ADJ
    bordered; wearing a toga praetextus

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  • 6 praetendo

    prae-tendo, di, tum ( part. praetensus, Anthol. Lat. 3, 168, 5), 3, v. a., to stretch forth or forward, to extend (syn. obtendo).
    I.
    Lit.:

    praetenta Tela,

    stretched forth, presented, Ov. M. 8, 341: propagines e vitibus altius praetentos, shooting forth, Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 10, 15, 13: ubi visum in culice natura praetendit? set out, stationed (i. e. extendit, et posuit in anteriore oris parte), Plin. 11, 1, 2, § 2.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    To spread before or in front:

    membrana, quae praecordia appellant, quia cordi praetenditur,

    Plin. 11, 37, 77, § 197; 9, 6, 5, § 15.—
    2.
    To spread, draw, hold, or place a thing before another:

    segeti praetendere saepem,

    Verg. G. 1, 270:

    vestem tumidis praetendit ocellis,

    holds before, Ov. Am. 3, 6, 79:

    ramum praetendit olivae,

    holds out, Verg. A. 8, 116:

    fumosque manu praetende sequaces,

    id. G. 4, 230:

    decreto sermonem,

    to prefix, Liv. 3, 47:

    quicquid castrorum Armeniis praetenditur,

    Tac. H. 2, 6:

    ut adnexa classis et pugnae parata conversā et minaci fronte praetenderetur,

    id. ib. 2, 14.—
    b.
    Of places: praetendi, to stretch out before or in front of, to lie over against or opposite to ( poet. and post - Aug.;

    once in Liv.): praetentaque Syrtibus arva,

    Verg. A. 6, 60:

    tenue litus praetentum,

    Liv. 10, 2, 5:

    Armeniae praetentus Iber,

    Val. Fl. 5, 167:

    gens nostris provinciis late praetenta,

    Tac. A. 2, 56:

    Baeticae latere septentrionali praetenditur Lusitania,

    Plin. 3, 1, 2, § 6: a tergo praetendantur Aethiopes, id. 5, 9, 9, § 48; 6, 27, 31, § 134:

    Dardanis laevo Triballi praetenduntur,

    id. 4, 1, 1, § 3:

    extremis legio praetenta Britannis, i. e. opposita custodiae causa,

    Claud. B. Get. 416.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    To hold out or bring forward as an excuse, to allege, pretend, simulate (syn.:

    causor, praetexo): hominis doctissimi nomen tuis immanibus et barbaris moribus (soles) praetendere,

    to allege in excuse for, Cic. Vatin. 6, 14:

    praetendens culpae splendida verba tuae,

    Ov. R. Am. 240:

    legem postulationi suae praetendere,

    Liv. 3, 45, 1:

    quid honestum dictu saltem seditioni praetenditur muliebri?

    id. 34, 3, 8:

    meminisse, quem titulum praetenderitis adversus Philippum,

    id. 37, 54, 13:

    decem legatorum decretum calumniae inpudentissimae,

    id. 39, 28, 11: vultum, et tristitiam, et dissentientem a ceteris habitum pessimis moribus praetendebant, Quint. prooem. § 15; Plin. Ep. 4, 16, 3:

    ignorantia praetendi non potest,

    Quint. 7, 1, 35:

    haec a se factitari praetendebat,

    Tac. A. 6, 18:

    praetendere fessam aetatem et actos labores,

    id. ib. 3, 59; Flor. 3, 5, 3:

    plebeiam facie tenus praetendens humanitatem,

    App. M. 10, 23, p. 250, 9.—
    B.
    To put forward, hold out, allege, assert a thing:

    nec conjugis umquam Praetendi taedas,

    I never pretended to be your husband, Verg. A. 4, 338:

    debitum,

    to demand a debt, sue for payment of a debt, Dig. 2, 14, 9.

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  • 7 praetexta

    praetexta, ae, f., v. praetexo fin. B. 1.

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  • 8 praetextatus

    praetextātus, a, um, adj. [praetexta, under praetexo fin. B. 1.], clothed with or wearing the toga praetexta (class.):

    Clodius, qui numquam antea praetextatus fuisset,

    Cic. Pis. 4, 8:

    pupillus,

    id. Verr. 2, 1, 58, § 151; id. Phil. 2, 18, 44; 2, 43, 110:

    adulter,

    i. e. juvenile, Juv. 1, 78:

    imagines,

    Suet. Ner. 57:

    aetas,

    the age under seventeen years, Gell. 1, 23, 18:

    praetextata cultus amicitia,

    from childhood, Mart. 10, 20, 4.— Esp., subst.: praetextātus, i, m., one who wears the toga praetexta:

    delectu edicto, juniores ab annis septemdecim, et quosdam praetextatos scribunt,

    Liv. 22, 57; Suet. Rhet. 1:

    si quis praetextatum adsectatus fuerit,

    Gai. Inst. 3, 220; Juv. 10, 308. —
    II.
    Transf., verba praetextata, prop., veiled or disguised words; hence, transf., equivocal, obscene, unchaste expressions (post-Aug.):

    praetextatis verbis abstinere,

    Suet. Vesp. 22:

    impudica et praetextata verba,

    Macr. S. 2, 1:

    non praetextatis, sed puris honestisque verbis,

    Gell. 9, 10, 4; cf.

    mores,

    Juv. 2, 170.

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  • 9 praetextum

    praetextum, i, n., v. praetexo, P. a. B. 2.

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  • 10 toga

    tŏga, ae, f. [tego], a covering, garment.
    I.
    In gen. (ante-class. and rare): praeterea quod in lecto togas ante habebant; ante enim olim fuit commune vestimentum et diurnum et nocturnum et muliebre et virile, Varr. ap. Non. 541, 2:

    incinctā togā,

    Afran. ib. 540, 33; cf.

    comic.: ne toga cordylis, ne paenula desit olivis,

    Mart. 13, 1, 1. —
    * B.
    A roofing, roof:

    (toga) dicitur et tectum,

    Non. 406, 21. —
    II.
    In partic., the outer garment of a Roman citizen in time of peace, long, broad, and flowing, and consisting of a single piece of stuff; the toga or gown.
    A.
    Lit.:

    sed quod pacis est insigne et otii toga,

    Cic. Pis. 30, 73:

    quem tenues decuere togae,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 32:

    ima,

    Quint. 11, 3, 139:

    pexa,

    Mart. 2, 44, 1:

    rasa,

    id. 2, 88, 4: toga praetexta, the toga of magistrates and free-born children, ornamented with purple; v. praetexo: toga pura, the unornamented toga of youth who had laid aside the praetexta:

    Ciceroni meo togam puram cum dare Arpini vellem,

    Cic. Att. 9, 6, 1; 5, 20, 9; 7, 8, 5;

    called more freq. virilis,

    id. Sest. 69, 144; id. Phil. 2, 18, 44; Liv. 26, 19, 5; Plin. Ep. 1, 9, 2; and:

    toga libera,

    Prop. 4 (5), 1, 132; Ov. F. 3, 771; cf.:

    a patre ita eram deductus ad Scaevolam sumptā virili togā,

    Cic. Lael. 1, 1:

    toga picta,

    worn by a victor in his triumph, Liv. 10, 7, 9; 30, 15, 11; Flor. 1, 5, 6:

    purpurea,

    worn by kings, Liv. 27, 4, 11; 31, 11, 12: candida, the toga worn by candidates for office, made of white fulled cloth; v. candidus: pulla, the dark-gray toga of mourners; v. pullus; cf. Becker, Gallus, 3, p. 107 sq.; 2, pp. 55 and 74 sq. (2d edit.).—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    As a designation for peace:

    ex quo genere haec sunt, Liberum appellare pro vino, campum pro comitiis, togam pro pace, arma ac tela pro bello,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 167: cedant arma togae, id. poët. Off. 1, 22, 77; id. Pis. 30, 73:

    vir omnibus belli ac togae dotibus eminens,

    Vell. 1, 12, 3; Tert. Pall. 5.—Also of the Roman national character; hence, togae oblitus, forgetful of Rome, Hor. C. 3, 5, 10.—
    2.
    As, in the times of the emperors, the toga went more and more out of use, and became almost exclusively the garment of clients, poet. for a client:

    eheu quam fatuae sunt tibi Roma togae,

    Mart. 10, 18, 4; 10, 47, 5; cf. Plin. Pan. 65; Flor. 4, 12, 32. —
    3.
    As women of loose character were not allowed to wear the proper female garment (the stola), and assumed the toga, poet. for a prostitute: si tibi cura togae est [p. 1876] potior pressumque quasillo Scortum, Tib. 4, 10, 3.

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