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|lshtext=<b>praepĕdĭo</b>: īvi, ĭi, ītum, 4, v. a. [[praepes]],<br /><b>I</b> to [[entangle]] the feet or [[other]] parts of the [[body]]; to [[shackle]], [[bind]], [[fetter]] ([[mostly]] [[poet]]. and [[post]]-Aug.; syn.: [[impedio]], [[illaqueo]], [[irretio]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: praepeditus latera forti ferro, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 5: praepeditis Numidarum equis, tied to the [[manger]], Tac. A. 4, 25: [[sine]] [[modo]] [[sese]] praedā praepediant, [[let]] [[them]] [[hamper]] or [[embarrass]] [[themselves]], Liv. 8, 38, 13.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., in gen., to [[hinder]], [[obstruct]], [[impede]]: singultu medios praepediente sonos, Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 42: [[timor]] praepedit dicta linguae, Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 25; Ov. H. 14, 18: si [[forte]] aliquos flumina, nives, venti praepedissent, Plin. [[Pan]]. 68: crura, Lucr. 3, 478: fugam hostium, Pac. [[Pan]]. Theodos. 40: recitantium praecipua pronuntiationis adjumenta, oculi, [[manus]], praepediuntur, Plin. Ep. 2, 19, 4: praepediri valetudine, to be prevented by [[illness]], Tac. A. 3, 3: praepeditus morbo, Cic. Rab. Perd. 7, 21.—With inf.: [[etiamsi]] praepeditus [[sit]] perculsas tot victoriis Germanias servitio premere, Tac. A. 2, 73.
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