anteponam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →antepono, anteponere, anteposui, antepositus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
set before (w/DAT), place/station before, serve (food); prefer, value above;
sg. fut. act. ind. 1stsg. pres. act. subj. 1st
Examples
Menaechmi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...CYLINDRVS Bene opsonavi atque ex mea sententia, bonum anteponam prandium pransoribus. sed eccum Menaechmum video. vae tergo..."Liber Secundus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...quidem vestra sic cogit. at ego quem huic anteponam non audeo dicere; dicet pro me ipsa virtus..."
