praetextatus
Ἕωθεν προλέγειν ἑαυτῷ: συντεύξομαι περιέργῳ, ἀχαρίστῳ, ὑβριστῇ, δολερῷ, βασκάνῳ, ἀκοινωνήτῳ: πάντα ταῦτα συμβέβηκεν ἐκείνοις παρὰ τὴν ἄγνοιαν τῶν ἀγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν. → When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. | Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
praetextātus: a, um, adj. praetexta, under praetexo fin. B. 1.,
I clothed with or wearing the toga praetexta (class.): Clodius, qui numquam antea praetextatus fuisset, Cic. Pis. 4, 8: pupillus, id. Verr. 2, 1, 58, § 151; id. Phil. 2, 18, 44; 2, 43, 110: adulter, i. e. juvenile, Juv. 1, 78: imagines, Suet. Ner. 57: aetas, the age under seventeen years, Gell. 1, 23, 18: praetextata cultus amicitia, from childhood, Mart. 10, 20, 4.— Esp., subst.: praetextātus, i, m., one who wears the toga praetexta: delectu edicto, juniores ab annis septemdecim, et quosdam praetextatos scribunt, Liv. 22, 57; Suet. Rhet. 1: si quis praetextatum adsectatus fuerit, Gai. Inst. 3, 220; Juv. 10, 308. —
II Transf., verba praetextata, prop., veiled or disguised words; hence, transf., equivocal, obscene, unchaste expressions (post-Aug.): praetextatis verbis abstinere, Suet. Vesp. 22: impudica et praetextata verba, Macr. S. 2, 1: non praetextatis, sed puris honestisque verbis, Gell. 9, 10, 4; cf. mores, Juv. 2, 170.
