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prae-celsus , a, um, adj.,
I.very high or lofty (class.; poet. and late Lat.; cf.: arduus, sublimis, excelsus).
I. Lit.: “rupes,Verg. A. 3, 245; Sulp. Sev. Chron. 2, 15, 9.—
II. Trop.: “Fortuna,Stat. S. 3, 3, 85.—Comp., Ambros. Fid. 4, 1, 7; id. in Luc. 3, 3, 37 (but Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48, § 107, perexcelso, B. and K.).
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