Præneste, a town of Latium, about 21 miles from Rome, built by Telegonus son of Ulysses and Circe, or, according to others, by Cæculus the son of Vulcan. There was a celebrated temple of Fortune there, with two famous images, as also an oracle, which was long in great repute. Cicero, De Divinatione, bk. 2, ch. 41.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 7, li. 680.—Horace, bk. 3, ode 4.—Statius, bk. 1, Sylvæ, poem 3, li. 80.
Præsos, a small town of Crete, destroyed in a civil war by one of the neighbouring cities.
Præsti, a nation of India. Curtius, bk. 9, ch. 8.
Prætōria, a town of Dacia, now Cronstadt.——Another, now Aoust, in Piedmont.
Prætorius, a name ironically applied to As. Sempronius Rufus, because he was disappointed in his solicitations for the pretorship, as being too dissolute and luxurious in his manners. He was the first who had a stork brought to his table. Horace, bk. 2, satire 2, li. 50.
Prætutium, a town of Picenum. Silius Italicus, bk. 15, li. 568.—Livy, bk. 22, ch. 9; bk. 27, ch. 43.
Prasiane, now Verdant, a large island at the mouth of the Indus. Pliny, bk. 6, ch. 20.
Prasias, a lake between Macedonia and Thrace, where were silver mines. Herodotus, bk. 5, ch. 17.
Prasii, a nation of India in Alexander’s age. Curtius, bk. 9, ch. 2.
Pratellia lex, was enacted by Pratellius the tribune, A.U.C. 398, to curb and check the ambitious views of men who were lately advanced in the state. Livy, bk. 7, ch. 15.