[9] Praecipitat is hurrying down the steep of the sky, midnight being past. Possibly also it denotes the fall of the dew, being connected with ‘humida,’ as “ruit” is with “imbriferum,” G. 1. 313. For the intrans. use of the verb comp. Cic. de Orat. 3. 55, 209, “sol praccipitans me admonuit.”
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