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|lshtext=<b>priscus</b>: a, um, adj. for [[prius]]-cus, [[like]] pris-[[tinus]] for [[prius]]-[[tinus]], and [[magis]] for magius, a [[comparative]] form,<br /><b>I</b> of or belonging to [[former]] times, of [[many]] years [[ago]], old, [[olden]], [[ancient]], [[primitive]], [[antique]]. Like the Greek [[ἀρχαῖος]]>, it denotes [[that]] [[which]] existed [[before]] [[our]] [[time]], [[while]] [[pristinus]] is applied also to those things [[which]] [[have]] existed in [[our]] [[day]] ([[class]].; cf.: [[vetus]], [[antiquus]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: credendum est veteribus et priscis viris, Cic. Univ. 11: prisca [[illa]] et antiqua rei publicae [[forma]], Vell. 2, 89, 3: illud erat [[insitum]] priscis illis, quos cascos appellat [[Ennius]], Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 27: nam Joves pluris in priscis Graecorum litteris invenimus, id. N. D. 3, 16, 42: [[severitas]], id. Har. Resp. 13, 27: et illud [[quod]] loquitur priscum [[visum]] iri putat, id. de Or. 3, 11, 42: priscae sanctimoniae [[virgo]], Tac. A. 3, 69: prisci Latini [[proprie]] appellati sunt ii, qui [[prius]] [[quam]] conderetur [[Roma]], fuerunt, Paul. ex Fest. p. 226 Müll.: priscae [[Latinae]] coloniae appellatae sunt, ut distinguerent a novis, quae [[postea]] a [[populo]] dabantur, Fest. p. 241 Müll.: [[tempus]], Ov. F. 1, 197.— [[Priscus]] has the [[accessory]] [[idea]] of [[venerable]], and from the Augustan [[period]] is [[frequently]] applied to [[whatever]] dates from the earliest times, the [[golden]] [[age]] of [[Rome]]: prisca [[gens]] mortalium, Hor. Epod. 2, 2: [[priscus]] [[Inachus]], id. C. 2, 3, 21: Pudor, id. C. S. 57: prisco [[more]], Ov. F. 2, 282: prisco ritu, Plin. 12, 1, 2, § 3: priscum illud [[acumen]], Brute, tuum, Juv. 4, 102: [[fides]], Verg. A. 9, 79; Mart. 1, 40, 2.—Subst.: prisci, ōrum, m., the ancients: cum colerent prisci studiosius agros, Ov. F. 3, 779.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Former, [[previous]] ([[poet]].): [[quid]] si prisca redit [[Venus]]? Hor. C. 3, 9, 17: [[nomen]], Ov. M. 14, 850; Spart. Hadr. 5.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Old-fashioned, i. e. [[strict]], [[severe]] ([[poet]].): prisci praecepta parentis, Cat. 64, 159: [[Cato]], Hor. C. 3, 21, 11: prisca supercilia, Verg. Cop. 34.—Hence, adv.: priscē, in the old-fashioned [[manner]], [[strictly]], [[severely]] ([[class]]. [[but]] [[rare]]): [[utrum]] me [[secum]] [[severe]], et [[graviter]], et [[prisce]] agere malit, an [[remisse]], ac [[leniter]], et [[urbane]], Cic. Cael. 14, 33.