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prae-rĭpĭo , rĭpui, reptum, 3, v. a. rapio.
I. In gen., to take away a thing before another, to snatch or tear away, to carry off (class.): “quid huc venisti sponsam praereptum meam?Plaut. Cas. 1, 14: Tun meo patre es prognatus? Men. Immo equidem, meo. Tuom tibi ego neque occupare neque praeripere postulo, id. Men. 5, 9, 21: “aliquem alicui,Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 81: “maritum,Vulg. Gen. 30, 15: “arma Minervae,Ov. Am. 1, 1, 7: “aliis laudem,Cic. Rosc. Am. 1, 2; Hirt. B. G. 8, prooem. § 5:“ cum ea praerepta et extorta defensioni suae cerneret, in quibus, etc.,Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 16; cf. Hirt. ap. Suet. Caes. 56: “alicui cibos,Plin. 10, 9, 11, § 27.—
II. In partic.
A. To snatch away before the time, to carry off prematurely: “deorum beneficium festinatione,Cic. Phil. 14, 2, 2: “immaturā morte praereptus,Aur. Vict. Vir. Ill. 5: brevibus praereptus in annis, snatched away prematurely, sc. by death, Val. Fl. 5, 571: “IN PRIMO AETATIS FLORE PRAEREPTVS,Inscr. Grut. 350, 6.—
B. To take away quickly: “oscula,to snatch kisses, Lucr. 3, 896: codicillos, to take or seize hastily, Suet. Ner. 49.—
C. To forestall, anticipate: “non praeripiam,I will not anticipate, Cic. Att. 10, 1, 2: “hostium consilia,baffle in advance, id. Off. 1, 30, 108: “scelere praerepto doles,Sen. Thyest. 1104.—
D. With se, to take one's self off hastily, to make one's escape: “praeripuit se ad amicum,Dig. 21, 1, 17.
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    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 10.1.2
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 8.0
    • Cicero, For Sextus Roscius of Ameria, 1.2
    • Cicero, Philippics, 14.2.2
    • Old Testament, Genesis, 30.15
    • Plautus, Menaechmi, 5.9
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 3.896
    • Suetonius, Divus Julius, 56
    • Suetonius, Nero, 49
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 10.27
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 3.9.16
    • Seneca, Thyestes, 1104
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 1.30
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 5.571
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