I.to hang before, to hang down in front (class.): “ubi tegumenta praependere possent ad defendendos ictus,” Caes. B. C. 2, 9, 3: “storias circum turrim praependentes,” id. ib. 2, 9, 5: “praependent demissae in pocula sertae,” Prop. 2, 33 (3, 31), 37: “barba,” Mart. 9, 48, 4: “ancones,” Vitr. 4, 6: “lacinia praependens impedit,” App. Mag. p. 286, 21.
prae-pendĕo , ēre, v. n.,