I.to creep forwards or forth, to creep or crawl along (ante- and post-class.).
I. Lit.: “proserpens bestia,” Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 74; cf. id. As. 3, 3, 105; id. Pers. 4, 28; Varr. L. L. 5, § 68 Müll.: “servulus proserpit leniter,” App. M. 4, p. 151, 13: “de specu funesta proserpit ursa,” id. ib. 7, p. 198, 25.—Transf., of plants, to come forth imperceptibly: “sata in lucem proserpunt,” Arn. 3, 119.—