prefatory
PREFATORY
By circumlocution with substantives or verbs; e.g. to make some prefatory remarks pauca paucis praefari: without any prefatory remark nihil praefatus; nulla praefatione usus.
By circumlocution with substantives or verbs; e.g. to make some prefatory remarks pauca paucis praefari: without any prefatory remark nihil praefatus; nulla praefatione usus.
prefatory: Phr.: to make a few p. observations, pauca praefari, Liv. pref. init.: cf. pauca praeponere, Cic. Fam. 11, 27 (words not implying that what is thus said is to introduce a sequel).