A.before the destined term, i.e. untimely, of death, Ael.Fr.49, Man.1.276.
2. of persons, doomed to untimely death, AP11.159 (Lucill.); in epitaphs, dead before their time, Epigr. Gr.418 (Cyrene), IG14.1386.3 (Alba), 1521 (Rome). Adv. -ρως ib. 1932 (ibid.), BMus.Inscr.794.10 (Cnidus).