Anteeo, anteis, anteíui, anreîre. Cic.To excell: to goe before.Anteire vehiculo. Sueron. Anreire ventos. Silius. To be swifter. Anteire, per meraphoram, pro Antecellere.Cic.Virtus omnibus rebus anteit profectò.Plaut.Quum omnes gloria anteiret.Salust.Where as he passed.Qui candore niues anteirent, cursibus auras.Virg.Anteire cæteris virture.Cic. Claritudine generis. Tac. Anteire ætate.Cic.To be elder.Anteire ab alijs.Tacit.To be passed or excelled.Ante-expectatum, Aduerbium temporis.Virg. Ante expectatum positis stat in agmine castris. Sodeinly: before it was looked for.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
antĕ-ĕo, īvi or ii, īre, v. n. (old form antĭdeo = anteeo, like antidea for antea, Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 3; antidit = anteit, id. Trin. 2, 4, 145 Ritschl. In verse the e in ante blends with the foll. e or i, per synaloephen, into one syll.; hence, anteire trisyl., Lucr. 4 [141]; cf. Hor. C. 1, 35, 17; id. Ep. 1, 2, 70 al.; later we find the sync. forms: pres. subj. antēat, Ov. A. A. 2, 726; fut. antībo, Tac. A. 5, 6; pluperf. subj. antīssent, id. ib. 3, 69; inf. antīsse, id. ib. 4, 40). I. In space, to go before, precede, to take the lead; with dat., acc., or absol.a. With dat.: interdum montes Montibus anteire (videntur), Lucr. 4 [141]: praetoribus anteeunt, Cic. Agr. 2, 34.—b. With acc.: te anteit necessitas, Hor. C. 1, 35, 17.—c.Absol.: barbarum jubebat anteire, Cic. Off. 2, 7, 25; so Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 70; Liv. 1, 59; Tac. A. 3, 69; Suet. Caes. 57; id. Aug. 64. —II.Trop.A.To go before: anteibit faciem tuam justitia, Vulg. Isa. 58, 8.— B.To excel, surpass any one: virtus omnibus rebus anteit, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 18: Qui omnīs homines supero atque antideo cruciabilitatibus animi, id. Cist. 2, 1, 3: aliquem sapientiā, Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 17: alicui aetate, Cic. Phil. 9, 1; id. Tusc. 1, 3, 5: aliquem virtutibus, Nep. Thras. 1, 3: aetatem meam honoribus vestris anteistis, Liv. 38, 51: candore nives, cursibus auras, Verg. A. 12, 84 al.—Pass.: se aequales tui, abs te anteiri putant, Cic. Sull. 8: a deterioribus honore anteiri, Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 3; Tac. H. 2, 101.—More rare, C.To anticipate, prevent any thing: damnationem anteiit, Tac. A. 6, 29; id. ib. 15, 38.—D.To oppose, resist: auctoritati parentis, Tac. A. 5, 3.— E.Poet., to know beforehand, to foreknow: quid vellet crastinus Auster, Anteibat, Sil. 14, 455.