(v. a.P. a.) : prō-culco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.calco
* To tread down, trample upon (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
* Lit.: turbatus eques sua ipse subsidia territis equis proculcavit,Liv. 10, 36, 5: crescenti segetes proculcat in herbā,Ov. M. 8, 290; cf. Sev. ap. Sen. Suas. 6, 26, 26 sq.—Of a Centaur: pedibusque virum proculcat equinis,Ov. M. 12, 374: solum,Col. 3, 13, 6: uvas,id. 12, 19, 3; cf. id. 12, 15, 3; Phaedr. 1, 32, 9: nepotem,trample to death,Just. 44, 4, 4: una ala ipso impetu proculcata erat,crushed,Curt. 3, 11, 14: aliquem,Tac. H. 3, 81: materiam,Just. 38, 10, 3: qui tot proculcavimus nives, have trodden, i. e. traversed, Curt. 6, 3, 16.
* Trop., to trample upon, tread under foot, despise: qui fata proculcavit,Sen. Phoen. 193: proculcato senatu,Tac. H. 1, 40: proculcata desertaque respublica,Suet. Vesp. 5: contumeliosā voce,Val. Max. 9, 5, 3.—Hence, prōculcātus, a, um, P. a., trodden down; trop., = tritus, trodden under foot, mean, low, common (post-class.): verba proculcata vulgo et protrita,Gell. 18, 4, 6; cf. id. 17, 2, 10.

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