Lewis & Short

Parsing inflected forms may not always work as expected. If the following does not give the correct word, try Latin Words or Perseus.

prae-cŭtĭo, cussi, cussum, 3, v. a. [quatio], 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).