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praestet

praestet is a Latin form of praesto, meaning “excel; provide; (adv.) at hand”. It is the 3rd person singular present active subjunctive.

Found 49 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.31: … o falsa aut certe minora opinione esse confido, quanto haec dissimulari et occultari, quam per nos confirmari praestet? An non, uti corporis vulnera, ita exercitus incommoda sunt tegenda, ne spem adversariis augeamus? At etiam, …

Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis 6.43.3: Qui nimis de reddendo beneficio cogitat, nimis cogitare alterum de recipiendo putat. Praestet se in utrumque facilem. Si vult recipere beneficium, referamus reddamusque laeti ; si illud apud nos custodir …

All forms of praesto (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.