Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Praecia

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

PRAE'CIA. A crier who preceded the Flamines on holy days, and ordered the people to cease from work whilst a procession passed, lest the sacred rites should be profaned by the priest setting eyes upon a person engaged in manual labour, which was regarded in the light of a pollution. Festus, s. v. Serv. ad Virg. Georg. i. 268.