put before

put before:

I. In position, lit. or fig..

1. oppōno, 3: cf. oculis manus opp. Ov. F. 3, 46: manum fronti, id. M. 2, 276.

2. pōno, 3: p. before your eyes, etc., pone ante oculos laetitiam senatus, Cic. Phil. 2, 45: v. TO SET BEFORE.

II. In order: praepōno, 3: putting the last before the first (= prov. the cart before the horse), praeponens ultima primis, Hor. S. 1, 4, 59.

III. A proposition: propōno, 3: v. TO PROPOSE.