procus

1.

prŏcus, i, v. procer init.

2.

prŏcus, i ( gen. plur. procūm, Cic. Or. 46, 156), m.

I.

A wooer, suitor: proci dicuntur, qui poscunt aliquam in matrimonium, Graece mnêstêres. Est enim procare poscere, etc., Fest. p. 249 Müll.:

me natam nulli veterum sociare procorum Fas erat,

Verg. A. 12, 27:

Penelope difficilis procis,

Hor. C. 3, 10, 11:

apotheca procis intacta est,

id. S. 2, 5, 7; 78; Ov. M. 4, 794; 9, 10; 14, 670:

proci loripedes, said of slow people,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 7.—

* II.

Trop., of canvassers, a suitor:

impudentes proci,

Cic. Brut. 96, 330.