verb
praecento
Meaning
- to sing before
praecento, āre prae-canto,
I. to sing before, to offer consolation in song:
huic Epicurus praecentet, si potest, cum, etc., Cic. Fin. 2, 29, 94 B. and K.; v. Madv. ad loc.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
praecentō —, —, āre
prae+canto, to utter incantations before : huic.