Antecedents
Ancients and antecedents are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ancients" instead an adjective "Antecedents".
Ancients
Ancients noun - People who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe).
Antecedents and ancients are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Antecedents" instead an adjective "Ancients".
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