I.high, tall, long.
I. Lit. (class.; cf. “excelsus): procerum collum,” Cic. Brut. 91, 313: “boves cornibus proceris,” Col. 6, 1, 3: “in procero corpore,” Plin. Ep. 4, 9, 22: “homo procerae staturae,” Suet. Vesp. 23: “habitu procerus,” Tac. H. 4, 1: “pueritia,” id. ib. 4, 14: “homo procerior,” Col. 3, 8, 2: “usus est calceamentis altiusculis, ut procerior videretur,” Suet. Aug. 73: “(Galatea) floridior pratis, longa procerior alno,” Ov. M. 13, 790: “inter hos procerissimos populos,” Cic. Leg. 1, 5, 15: “procerissimus quisque,” Suet. Calig. 47: “cohortes,” Sil. 15, 717: “statura,” Vulg. Num. 13, 33.—Of plants, trees: “procerissimae populi,” Cic. Leg. 1, 5, 15: “quid enim abiete procerius?” Plin. 17, 4, 3, § 26: “proceras lauros,” Cat. 64, 289: “silvae,” Ov. H. 16, 107; Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 7: “Pompeianum (genus) procerius,” Plin. 19, 8, 41, § 140.—
B. In partic., perh. the name of a company of tall soldiers, similar to our grenadiers: “VETERANVS EX PROCERIORIBVS,” Inscr. Murat. 800, 2.—
II. Transf., in gen., long, extended, large: “passus,” Lucr. 4, 827: aves procero rostro, Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 101: “lupi,” large, Hor. S. 2, 2, 36; cf.: “thoes, luporum id genus est, procerius longitudine,” Plin. 8, 34, 52, § 123: “procerior cauda,” id. 8, 45, 70, § 183: “dextera,” id. 11, 43, 99, § 245: “proceriores uniones,” id. 9, 35, 56, § 113: “cucurbitae,” id. 19, 5, 24, § 72: syllabae procerae sunt, quae vocalem longam habent in paenultima, ut facultas, long, Varr. ap. Diom. p. 423 P.: “anapaestus, procerior numerus,” Cic. de Or. 3, 48, 185.— Poet.: “plangebant aliae proceris tympana palmis,” i. e. outstretched, upraised, Cat. 64, 289.—Hence, * adv.: prōcērē ; comp.: “bracchium procerius projectum,” stretched out to a greater length, Cic. de Or. 3, 59, 220.
