To goe before: to ercell: to passe. Biduo me antecessic. Brutus ad Ciceronem. He was before me two dayes iournoy. Antecedere quempiam magnis itineribus. Cæs. To get beyond or before one with great iourneyes. Antecedere, per metaphorá. To passe: to ercelito surmoe Natura hominis pecudibus reliquisque bestijs antecedit. Cic. Scientia atq; vsu nantiearÛ rerum cæteros antecedu. Cæs. Antecedere alteri vel alterum ætace. Cic. To be elder. Antecedere pretio. Pl. To be more costly: or at higher price. Vt quisque honore & ætate antecedit: ita, &c. Cic. Longè cæteris & studijs & artibus antecedebat. Cic. Was farre more excellent. Virtutem regis antecesseris. Plaut. Antecedere, dictum de tempore. Plin. Pomo antecedentis anni detracto. Of the yeare before. Cibum semper antecedere debet exercitatio. Cels. Antecêdens pen. prod. Participium, vt Antecedens annus. Plin. The yeare before. Antecedens & Insequens, contraria. Cic.

I. Lit.

a. With dat.: ubi ambitionem virtuti videas antecedere, Titin. ap. Non. 499, 8: si huic rei illa antecedit, huic non antecedit, Cic. Top. 23.—

b. With acc.: Pompeius expeditus antecesserat legiones, Cic. Att. 8, 9: biduo me Antonius antecessit, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13; Curt. 4, 7, 15: antecedite me, Vulg. Gen. 32, 16; ib. 1 Reg. 9, 27; ib. Matt. 2, 9, and so Vulg. always.—

c. Absol.: magnis itineribus antecessit, Caes. B. G. 7, 35; Liv. 2, 6; Vell. 1, 4, 1: antecedente famā, Liv. 5, 37, 6: antecedens scelestus, Hor. C. 3, 2, 31.—

II. Fig.

A. To precede, in time: haec (dies) ei antecessit, Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 40: exercitatio semper antecedere cibum debet, Cels. 1, 2.—

B. To have the precedence of any one, to excel, surpass; with dat. and acc. (cf. Rudd. II. p. 136).

a. With dat.: virtute regi antecesseris, Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 118: quantum natura hominis pecudibus antecedit, Cic. Off. 1, 30, 105; so id. Brut. 21, 82.—

b. With acc. of person or thing and abl. or abl. with in: scientiā atque usu nauticarum rerum ceteros antecedunt, Caes. B. G. 3, 8: nemo eum in amicitiā antecessit, Nep. Alcib. 9, 3: maltha duritiam lapidis antecedens, Plin. 36, 24, 58, 18.—

c. Absol., to distinguish one's self, to become eminent: ut quisque honore et aetate antecedebat, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 64; so id. Inv. 2, 22.—Hence,

1. antĕcēdens, entis, P. a.

a. In gen.: hora, Cic. ad Octav. 3: annus, Plin. 13, 8, 16, 59; so Suet. Tib. 5.—

b. T. t. of philosophy, the antecedent (opp. consequens): causa, Cic. Fat. 11, 33; 15, 34.—In plur. as subst.: an-tĕcēdentĭa, ōrum, n.: locus ex antecedentibus, Cic. Top. 12; so id. Part. Or. 2; Quint. 5, 10, 45; 6, 3, 66.—

2. antĕces-sus, a, um, P. a., that goes before; only in the connection, in antecessum dare, solvere, accipere, etc.; t. t., to give, pay, receive, etc., beforehand, in advance (postAug.): in antecessum dabo, Sen. Ep. 118: accipere, id. ib. 7: reponere, id. Ben. 4, 32: praedam dividere, Flor. 4, 12, 24 al.