I.O! Ah! Alas! (class.).
(α).
With nom.: “proh! bonae frugi hominem te jam pridem esse arbitror,” Plaut. Cas. 2, 4, 4: pro Juppiter! Enn. ap. Varr L. L. 7, § 12 Müll. (Trag. v 225 Vahl.); Ter. And. 4, 3, 17; id. Eun. 3, 5, 2; id. Ad. 1, 2, 31; cf.: “pro supreme Juppiter,” id. ib. 2, 1, 42: “pro Juppiter, Hominis stultitiam!” id. ib. 3, 3, 12: “pro di immortales,” id. ib. 3, 4, 1; cf.: pro, dii immortales: Cic. Imp. Pomp. 12, 33: “pro curia inversique mores!” Hor. C. 3, 5, 7: “pro scelus,” Mart. 2, 46, 8.—
(β).
Parenthet.: “pro, quanta potentia regni Est, Venus alma, tui,” Ov. M. 13, 758: “et mea, pro! nullo pondere verba cadunt,” id. H. 3, 98: “tantum, pro! degeneramus a patribus,” Liv. 22, 14, 6; Curt. 4, 16, 10.—
(γ).
With acc.: pro divom fidem! Enn. ap. Don. ad. Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 25 (Sat. v. 30 Vahl.); Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 28; cf.: “pro deum atque hominum fidem!” id. And. 1, 5, 2; 11; id. Heaut. 1, 1, 9; Cic. Tusc. 5, 16, 48; “instead of which, ellipt.: pro deum immortalium!” Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 4: “pro deum atque hominum,” id. Hec. 2, 1, 1: “pro fidem deum! facinus foedum,” id. Eun. 5, 4, 21.—
(δ).
With gen.: pro malae tractationis! Tert. Poen. fin.
