prosapies

prōsāpĭa, ae (collat. form prōsāpĭes, ēi or ēs), f. [pro and root sa.; cf. sero, satus], a stock, race, family (archaic; v. Quint. 1, 6, 40; 8, 3, 26; cf.: stirps, genus, progenies, posteritas): prosapia progenies: id est porro sparsis et quasi jactis liberis: quia supare significat jacere et disicere, Paul. ex Fest. p. 225 Müll.: veteres prosapias (perh. to be read veteris prosapies, as a gen. sing. ), Cato ap. Non. 67, 30:

de Coclitum prosapiā esse,

Plaut. Curc. 3, 23:

rogitares, unde esset, quā prosapiā,

id. Merc. 3, 4, 49:

homo veteris prosapiae,

Sall. J. 85, 10; so,

vetus,

Just. 14, 6, 11; Suet. Galb. 2:

et eorum, ut utamur veteri verbo, prosapiam,

Cic. Univ. 11; cf.:

nec utique ab ultimis et jam oblitteratis repetita (verba) temporibus, qualia sunt... prosapia,

Quint. 1, 6, 40:

insulsum (verbum),

id. 8, 3, 26. Galba magnā et vetere prosapiā, Suet. Galb. 2:

pro gloriā veteris prosapiae,

Just. 14, 6, 11; Prud. Apoth. 1006.—Form prosapies: tot stuprorum sordidam prosapiem, Prud. steph. 10, 180; Cassiod. Var 9, 25: prosapies, genous katagôgê, Gloss. Philox.