precedent Copy link • precedent: exemplum: a novel p., novum ex.: Sall. Cat. 51, med.: on the strength of this p., hoc ex., ib. paulo infr.: to leave a dangerous p. for after-times to follow, periculosam imitationem exempli in posterum prodere, Cic. Fl. 11, init. Join: conditio atque exemplum (opp. homo ipse de quo agitur), ib. 10, extr. Phr.: consider the p. you are establishing, quid in alios statuatis considerate, Sall. l. c.: legal p.s, res judicatae, Auct. Her. 2, 10, 14.