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prŏcul , adv. procello, to drive away,
I.in the distance, at a distance, a great way off, far, afar off, from afar.
I. Lit., of place (class.; cf.: longe, eminus); constr. absol.; with adv. of place; with ab and abl. (not in Cic., Cæs., 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.—
II. 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: q“uis 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.—
B. 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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    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 7.6.1
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 2.30
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 5.17
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.2.48
    • Cicero, On the Agrarian Law, 2.32.87
    • Cicero, Against Catiline, 2.13
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 5.114
    • Plautus, Curculio, 1.2
    • Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, 4.4
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 6.258
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 3.554
    • Horace, Satires, 1.6.52
    • Tacitus, Annales, 12.6
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    • Tacitus, Annales, 4.62
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 4.22
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    • Plautus, Poenulus, 3.3
    • Plautus, Rudens, 4.4
    • Plautus, Truculentus, 4.1
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 2.36
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    • Sallust, Catilinae Coniuratio, 20
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 1.812
    • Suetonius, Nero, 3
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 31.28
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 34.8
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 3.21
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    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 5.9.3
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 3, 22.4
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    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 4, 58.12
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1, 5.6
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    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 7, 37
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    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 5.14
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    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, pr.4
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 6, 2.14
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    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 1.5
    • Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum, 2.6
    • Statius, Thebias, 12
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