proca
Dictionary entries
- Entry →proco, procare, procoravi, procoratus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
urge/press (w/commands/suits); woo, importune for one's hand; ask/demand (L+S);
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
- P
Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...unde genus Longa nostrum dominabitur Alba. proximus ille Procas, Troianae gloria gentis, et Capys et Numitor..." - P
Metamorphoses XIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...iacet positus tribuitque vocabula monti; iamque Palatinae summam Proca gentis habebat. Rege sub hoc Pomona fuit, qua nulla..." - T
Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...nunc pars Romanae est urbis, cognomen colli fecit. Proca deinde regnat. Is Numitorem atque Amulium procreat, Numitori..."