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... quod famam carminum eius premebat Nero prohibueratque ostentare, vanu...

Lewis & Short lists as one of the "poetic" meanings of "premo," "lower, diminish, undervalue, disparage, depreciate: famam alicujus, Tac. A. 15, 49: premere ac despicere, Quint. 11, 1, 16: premere tumentia, humilia extollere, id. ib. 10, 4, 1." Lewis & Short s.v. premo