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praemetuo

praemetuo, to fear beforehand, be apprehensive

Frieze-Dennison Vergil

praemetuō, 3, a. and n.: to fear beforehand, dread, 2.573.

Could not find praemetuit in Logeion dictionaries.

praemetuit Verb: present active indicative 3rd singular of praemetuo

See praemetuit in Morpho

prae-mĕtŭo, 3, v. n. and a.
  • I Neutr., to fear or be in fear beforehand (very rare): mens, Lucr. 3, 1019: Caesar praemetuens suis, fearing for, anxious about his men, * Caes. B. G. 7, 49, 1.—
  • II Act., to fear something beforehand: poenas Danaum et deserti conjugis iras, * Verg. A. 2, 573: dum praemetuit cultus inolescere Christi, Prud. ap. Symm. 2, 681.
  • —Hence, praemĕtŭ-ens, entis, P. a., fearing beforehand; with gen. obj.: ovis praemetuens doli, Phaedr. 1, 16, 4.—* Adv.: praemĕtŭenter, anxiously, solicitously: errorem vitare, Lucr. 4, 823.

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