Meaning of protero | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to trample down, tread on something
   conjugation-3
2. to defeat, overthrow, maltreat, abuse
   conjugation-3

Examples

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“1st c. BC, author unknown, Rhētōrica ad Gaium Herennium eam patiminī nunc ab homunculīs dēterrimīs prōterī atque conculcārī? - do you now allow [Rome] to be defeated and crushed by the worst weaklings?”

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“3rd c., Apuleius, Metamorphōseōn librī Sacra praetereuntur, templa dēfōrmantur, pulvīnāria prōteruntur, caerimōniae negleguntur, incorōnāta simulācra et ārae viduae frīgidō cinere foedātae. - Her ornaments were throwne out, her temples defaced, her pillowes and cushions torne, her ceremonies neglected, her images and Statues uncrowned, and her bare altars unswept, and fowl with the ashes of old burnt sacrifice. (Translated by William Adlington, 1566, reprinted in 1639).”

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