procace
Dictionary entries
- Entry →procax, (gen.), procacis:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
pushing, impudent; undisciplined; frivolous;
abl. sg. (all)
Examples
de Constantia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...solutissimae linguae est. Pueros quidam in hoc mercantur procaces et illorum inpudentiam acuunt ac sub magistro habent..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...convolate planta, femore facili, clune agili et manu procaces, molles, veteres, Deliaci manu recisi. Consumptis versibus suis immundissimo..."Liber XIV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Augustianorum, aetate ac robore conspicui, et pars ingenio procaces, alii in spe[m] potentiae. ii dies ac noctes..."