(adverb) : prŏcul, procello, to drive away
* In the distance, at a distance, a great way off, far, afar off, from afar.
* Lit., of place (class.; cf.: longe, eminus); constr. absol.; with adv. of place; with ab and abl. (not in Cic., Caes., or Sall.); with abl. alone: cuja vox sonat procul?Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 18: sequi procul,id. Poen. 3, 3, 6: non jam procul, sed hic praesentes sua templa dii defendunt,Cic. Cat. 2, 13. 29: ubi turrim constitui procul viderunt,Caes. B. G. 2, 30: jubet, ut procul tela coniciant, neu propius accedant,id. ib. 5, 34: procul attendere,Cic. de Or. 2, 36, 153: procul e fluctu Trinacria,Verg. A. 3, 554: est procul in pelago saxum,id. ib. 5, 124: procul et e longinquo,Plin. 27, 3, 2, § 9: omnibus arbitris procul amotis,Sall. C. 20, 1: procul o, procul este, profani,keep aloof!Verg. A. 6, 258: cui procul astanti, Pettalus irridens dixit,Ov. M. 5, 114; cf.: adstans non procul,App. M. 7, p. 183, 14.—With other particles of place, as hinc, inde, alicunde, longe, etc.: procul hinc stans,at a distance from this place,Ter. Hec. 4, 3, 1; Plaut. Truc. 4, 1, 11: istic procul,id. Mil. 4, 4, 33: istinc procul,id. Rud. 4, 4, 104: procul inde,Ov. Am. 3, 14, 18: procul alicunde,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 20, § 48: procul longe,Plaut. Curc. 2, 2, 10.— With a or ab, far from, far away from (class.): procul a terrā abripi,Cic. de Or. 3, 36, 145: esse procul a conspectu,far out of sight,id. Agr. 2, 32, 87: a castris,Caes. B. G. 5, 17: a portā,Liv. 1, 12, 8: ab Ariciā,id. 2, 26, 5: ab hoste,id. 7, 37, 6: a domo,id. 4, 18, 1; 5, 4, 11: a patriā,id. 23, 29, 7; Verg. E. 10, 46: a mari,Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 227: a Pado,id. 3, 17, 21, § 124: a litore,Quint. 12, prooem. § 2: ab ore,id. 11, 3, 96: a fratre,Plin. Ep. 5, 9, 3: a mari,Sen. Q. N. 6, 7 fin.—With simple abl., far from, far away from: patriā procul, Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6, 1 (Trag. v. 295 Vahl.): urbe,Ov. P. 1, 5, 73: ripā Tiberis,Liv. 2, 13, 6: oppido,id. 3, 22, 4: moenibus,id. 4, 10, 5: Nomento,id. 4, 22, 2: mari,Liv. 38, 16, 15: haud procul castris,Tac. H. 4, 22: Teutoburgiensi Saltu,id. A. 1, 60: regno,id. ib. 2, 67: non procul Euripidis poëtae sepulcro,Plin. 31, 2, 19, § 28: urbe Romā,id. 2, 94, 96, § 209: oppido,id. 3, 3, 4, § 21.
* Trop., far, distant, remote; constr, with ab, the abl., or absol.: conscia mihi sum a me culpam hanc esse procul,Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 50: procul ab omni metu,Cic. Tusc. 5, 14, 41: viri, qui sunt procul ab aetatis hujus memoriā,id. Rep. 1, 1, 1: caelestia procul sunt a nostrā cognitione,id. Ac. 1, 4, 15: res procul ab ostentatione positae,Quint. 1, prooem. § 4: quis tam procul a litteris, quin sic incipiat,so unacquainted with letters, so unlettered,id. 7, 1, 46; 8, 3, 23: ab odio, ab irā,id. 6, 2, 14: a sapiente,Sen. Ira, 1, 6, 4: ab omni negotio,id. Brev. Vit. 11, 2: a praesenti modestiā,Tac. A. 12, 6.— With simple abl.: liber invidiā, procul contentionibus,Quint. 12, 11, 7: eam (plebem) procul urbe haberi,out of public affairs,Liv. 4, 58, 12: procul negotiis,Hor. Epod. 2, 1: ambitione,id. S. 1, 6, 52: voluptatibus habere aliquem,to keep one aloof from enjoyments, deprive him of them,Tac. A. 4, 62: tali more,id. ib. 4, 28: procul dubio,without doubt,Quint. 1, 5, 14; 9, 1, 27; Plin. 9, 61, 87, § 184; Liv. 39, 40, 10; Suet. Ner. 3; for which: dubio procul,Flor. 2, 6; Lucr. 1, 812: procul vero est,far from the truth, untrue,Col. 1 praef. fin.—Absol.: assentatio vitiorum adjutrix procul amoveatur,Cic. Lael. 24, 89: homines superbissimi procul errant,err widely, greatly,Sall. J. 85, 38: pauperies immunda domus procul absit, i.e. pauperies domestica procul absit,Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 199: durabisne procul dominoque legere superstes, Thebai?Stat. Th. 12, 810: non procul est quin, it does not want much of, etc., almost, nearly, Sil. 2, 335: haud procul est quin Romam agnosceret,Liv. 1, 5, 6.
* In partic. (post-Aug. and very rare), in estimation of value, far removed from, much inferior to: aes suo colore pretiosum, procul a Corinthio (est), is far beneath or inferior to, much poorer than, Plin. 34, 2, 3, § 8.

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