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praeco , ōnis (old
I.dat, PRAECONEI, Inscr. Lat. 202, 2, 34), m., a crier, herald, in a court of justice, in popular assemblies, at auctions, at public spectacles, games, or processions, etc.: exsurge, praeco, fac populo audientiam, Enn. ap. Plaut. Poen. prol. 11 (Trag. v. 32 Vahl.); Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 30, § 76; id. Quint. 3, 11; Varr. L. L. 6, §§ “86 and 87 Müll.: haec per praeconem vendidit,Cic. N. D. 3, 34, 84: “in eopse astas lapide, ut praeco praedicat,on the auctioneer's block, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 7, 17; cf.: “ut praeco, ad merces turbam qui cogit emendas,Hor. A. P. 419; Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 8; Juv. 6, 439; 8, 95: indictivum funus, ad quod per praeconem evocabantur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 106 Müll.—
II. Transf., a publisher, herald: “o fortunate adulescens, qui tuae virtutis Homerum praeconem inveneris!Cic. Arch. 10, 24.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 5.12.8
    • Cicero, For Archias, 10.24
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.2.76
    • Plautus, Bacchides, 4.7
    • Horace, Ars Poetica, 419
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 3.34
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