Ante

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ante. (ˈan.te) prep. w/ acc.

1. Before; in front of.

ante. (ˈan.te) adv.

1. Before; beforehand.

Loci

• αʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 5.20:

Hic a. d. iii Id. Oct. magnum numerum hostium occidimus.

Here on October 13 we killed a large number of the enemy.

• βʹ Cicero, Ad Quintum Fratrem 3.1:

Romam cum venissem a. d. XIII. Kal. Octobres, absolutum offendi in aedibus tuis tectum, quod supra conclavia non placuerat tibi esse multorum fastigiorum: id nunc honeste vergit in tectum inferioris porticus.

When I got to Rome on September 19, I found that the roof of your house—above the rooms, where you didn't want there to be so many gables—had been finished; it now slopes handsomely down to the roof of the lower colonnade.

• γʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 2.2:

Πελληναιων in manibus tenebam et hercule magnum acervum Dicaearchi mihi ante pedes exstruxeram.

I had [the scroll] of the Pellenaei in my hands and, I swear, I had a big heap of Dicaearchus piled up at my feet.

• δʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 2.17:

Verum, ut scribis, haec in Arpinati a. d. VI. circiter Idus Maias non deflebimus [...] sed conferemus tranquillo animo.

True, as you say, we won't be crying about this at Arpinum around the tenth of May; we will discuss it calmly.

• εʹ Vitruvius, De Architectura 1.2:

Item si doricis epistlyiis in coronis denticuli sculpentur aut in pulvinatis columnis et Ionicis epistyliis [capitulis] exprimentur triglyphi, translatis ex alia ratione proprietatibus in aliud genus operis offendetur aspectus aliis ante ordinis consuetudinibus institutis.

Also, if dentils are carved on the cornices in Doric entablatures, or if triglyphs are formed on the cushion-shaped capitals on the columns in Ionic entablatures, the look of the work will be ruined by the transfer of characteristics from one order to another, when the other conventions of the order have been established beforehand.

• στʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 16.6:

Quin si, ut spero, celeriter in Epirum, hoc quod satis dato debeo peto a te ut ante provideas planeque expedias et solutum relinquas.

Indeed if you will soon be to Epirus—I hope so—I ask you to see to what I owe on secured loans beforehand, handle it in full and leave it repaid.