I.gen. plur. procūm, Cic. Or. 46, 156), m.
I. A wooer, suitor: proci dicuntur, qui poscunt aliquam in matrimonium, Graece μνηστῆρες. Est enim procare poscere, etc., Fest. p. 249 Müll.: “me natam nulli veterum sociare procorum Fas erat,” Verg. A. 12, 27: “Penelope difficilis procis,” Hor. C. 3, 10, 11: “apotheca procis intacta est,” id. S. 2, 5, 7; 78; Ov. M. 4, 794; 9, 10; 14, 670: “proci loripedes, said of slow people,” Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 7.—*
II. Trop., of canvassers, a suitor: “impudentes proci,” Cic. Brut. 96, 330.
