prae-polleo, ēre, v. n., to exceed or surpass in power, to be very powerful, to be very remarkable or distinguished (perh. not ante-Aug.): quibus additis praepollebat, he had the superiority, Tac. A. 2, 45; 51: Phoenices mari praepollebant, id. ib. 11, 14: puella praepollet pulcritudine, App. M. 6, p. 182, 29.

—Hence, praepollens, entis, P. a., very powerful, very distinguished: gens divitiis praepollens, Liv. 1, 57: vir, virtute, id. 5, 34.

—Comp.: vis oculorum praepollentior, Aug. Civ. Dei, 22, 29.‡ * praeponderātio, ōnis, f. praepondero, preponderance: praeponderatio, ῥοπή, Gloss. Lat. Gr.