warn Copy link Outline 1. mŏneo, 22. admŏneo, 2 (rather more of friendly warning or advice on things past or present, less of things future)3. praemŏneo, 2 (to forewarn) • warn: 1. mŏneo, 2: Fabius w.'d me of this, Fabius ea me monuit, Cic. Fam. 3, 3, 1: Caecina w.'d his soldiers of the emergency, Caecina milites necessitatis monuit, Tac. A. 1, 67: to w. of a thing, monere de aliquo, Cic.: to w. to do, monere ut faciat, Cic. Fam. 10, 1, 2: I w. them to keep off their hands, moneo abstineant manus, id. Verr. Act. 1, 12, 36: the year w.s you not to hope, monet annus ne speres, Hor. Od. 4, 7, 7: the sun w.s us that tumults are at hand, sol m. tumultus instare, Virg. G. 1, 464. 2. admŏneo, 2 (rather more of friendly warning or advice on things past or present, less of things future): constr. as moneo: also with inf. in poets and later prose: evening has w.'d them to leave the fields, vesper admonuit decedere campis, Virg. G. 4, 186. 3. praemŏneo, 2 (to forewarn): constr. with ut, ne, and subj., or with de; or with dependent clause: that future princes might be w.'d how they might gain glory, ut futuri principes praemonerentur qua via possent ad gloriam niti, Plin. Ep. 3., 18, 2. Phr.: to suffer oneself to be w.'d, *audire monentem, monenti obsequi (Georg.): to refuse to be w.'d, *rejicere, spernere monentem (Georg.).