procerus

prōcērus, a, um, adj. [pro and root karof creo; cf. Gr. kratos, krateros], high, tall, long.

I.

Lit. (class.; cf.

excelsus): procerum collum,

Cic. Brut. 91, 313:

boves cornibus proceris,

Col. 6, 1, 3:

in procero corpore,

Plin. Ep. 4, 9, 22:

homo procerae staturae,

Suet. Vesp. 23:

habitu procerus,

Tac. H. 4, 1:

pueritia,

id. ib. 4, 14:

homo procerior,

Col. 3, 8, 2:

usus est calceamentis altiusculis, ut procerior videretur,

Suet. Aug. 73:

(Galatea) floridior pratis, longa procerior alno,

Ov. M. 13, 790:

inter hos procerissimos populos,

Cic. Leg. 1, 5, 15:

procerissimus quisque,

Suet. Calig. 47:

cohortes,

Sil. 15, 717:

statura,

Vulg. Num. 13, 33.—Of plants, trees:

procerissimae populi,

Cic. Leg. 1, 5, 15:

quid enim abiete procerius?

Plin. 17, 4, 3, § 26:

proceras lauros,

Cat. 64, 289:

silvae,

Ov. H. 16, 107; Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 7:

Pompeianum (genus) procerius,

Plin. 19, 8, 41, § 140.—

B.

In partic., perh. the name of a company of tall soldiers, similar to our grenadiers:

VETERANVS EX PROCERIORIBVS,

Inscr. Murat. 800, 2.—

II.

Transf., in gen., long, extended, large:

passus,

Lucr. 4, 827: aves procero rostro, Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 101:

lupi,

large, Hor. S. 2, 2, 36; cf.:

thoes, luporum id genus est, procerius longitudine,

Plin. 8, 34, 52, § 123:

procerior cauda,

id. 8, 45, 70, § 183:

dextera,

id. 11, 43, 99, § 245:

proceriores uniones,

id. 9, 35, 56, § 113:

cucurbitae,

id. 19, 5, 24, § 72: syllabae procerae sunt, quae vocalem longam habent in paenultima, ut facultas, long, Varr. ap. Diom. p. 423 P.:

anapaestus, procerior numerus,

Cic. de Or. 3, 48, 185.— Poet.:

plangebant aliae proceris tympana palmis,

i. e. outstretched, upraised, Cat. 64, 289.—Hence, * adv.: prōcērē; comp.:

bracchium procerius projectum,

stretched out to a greater length, Cic. de Or. 3, 59, 220.