prae-cŭtĭo

cussi, cussum, 3, v. a.

quatio

I. to shake, wave, or brandish before or in front (poet.): taedas, Ov. M. 4, 757 (but in Prop. 4, 15, 16, the true reading is percutit).
Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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