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prae-nosco , ĕre, v. a.,
I.to learn or become acquainted with beforehand, to foreknow (class.): “futura,Cic. Div. 1, 38, 82; Suet. Ner. 56; Plin. 18, 24, 56, § 206: “promissum sibi caelum,Ov. F. 3, 159: “venturum caeli laborem,Stat. Th. 3, 490: “rerum fata,Sil. 3, 7: “omina,id. 16, 124; Vulg. Gen. 15, 13 (but in Plaut. As. 1, 1, 46, the correct reading is: in pretio sumus, acc. to Fleck. and Ussing).
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Old Testament, Genesis, 15.13
    • Plautus, Asinaria, 1.1
    • Suetonius, Nero, 56
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 1.38
    • Statius, Thebias, 3
    • Ovid, Fasti, 3
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