praesterno
Ὁ κόσμος σκηνή, ὁ βίος πάροδος· ἦλθες, εἶδες, ἀπῆλθες → The world is a stage, life is your entrance: you came, you saw, you departed (Democritus fr. 115 D-K)
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
prae-sterno: ĕre, v. a.,
I to strew or spread beforehand, to prepare (mostly anteand post-class.): eo praesternebant folia farferi (al. prosternebant), Plaut. Poen. 2, 32: altaria, to prepare, Stat. S. 3, 2, 114: jubet serta et elysios animae praesternere flores, id. ib. 5, 2, 257.—Pass. fig.: tuis laudibus tuisque virtutibus materiam campumque praesterni, Plin. Pan. 31, 1: illud peto, praesternas, etc. (al. less correctly, praestruas), Plin. Ep. 5, 8, 14.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
præsternō,¹⁵ ĕre, tr.,
1 étendre devant, joncher : Pl. *Pœn. 478 ; Stat. S. 3, 3, 114
2 [fig.] campum tuis laudibus præsterni Plin. Min. Pan. 31, 1, [il est clair] qu’un vaste champ s’ouvre à ton éloge.
