prŏcer | prŏcĕres, um | prŏcus, i (noun M) : in sing. only Juv. 8, 26, and Capitol. Max. 2; , (anteclass. collat. form , , in the
* Gen. plur.: procum patricium in descriptione classium quam facit, Serv. Tullius, significat procerum,Fest. p. 249 Müll.; cf.: jam (ut censoriae tabulae loquuntur) fabrum et procum audeo dicere, non fabrorum et procorum,Cic. Or. 46, 156), m. pro and root kar- of creo; cf. procērus.
* Lit., a chief, noble; plur., the leading men, chiefs, nobles, princes (class.; syn.: primores, optimates, primi): scindunt proceres Pergamum, the Grecian chiefs, princes, * Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 130: audiebam nostros proceres clamitantes,Cic. Fam. 13, 15, 1: Latinorum,Liv. 1, 45, 2: Etruscorum,id. 2, 10: ego proceribus civitatis annumeror,Tac. A. 14, 53: Caecina Largus e proceribus,Plin. 17, 1, 1, § 5: delectos populi ad proceres,Verg. A. 3, 58: castrorum,Luc. 7, 69: in procerum coetu,id. 8, 261; Juv. 2, 121; 3, 213: proceres rerum,Sil. 11, 142.—Transf., of bees: procerum seditio,Col. 9, 9, 6.—In sing.: agnosco procerem,Juv. 8, 26: in pueritiā fuit pastor nonnumquam et procer,a leader, captain,Capitol. Max. 2.
* Trop., the foremost or most celebrated men, the masters in an art, science, etc. (post-Aug.): proceres artis ejus (medicinae),Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 26: sapientiae,id. 7, 30, 31, § 112: gulae,id. 9, 17, 30, § 66: indicatis in genere utroque (pingendi) proceribus,id. 35, 11, 40, § 138.

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