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prōlēs is, f

pro+1 OL-, a growth, offshoot, offspring, progeny, children, descendants, race, posterity : futurorum hominum: gemella, O.: di Romulae genti date prolem, H.: pulchra, V.: ferrea, the iron race , C. poët.: argentea, O.: Dic mihi, Teucrorum proles, Iu.: escā replevit (feles) prolem suam, Ph.: maris inmensi proles, V.: olivae, i. e. the fruit , V.—Of one person, a son, child, offspring, descendant : Ulixi, i. e. Telemachus , H.: Apollinea, i. e. Æsculapius , O.: deūm certissima, V.Youth, young men : equitum peditumque: Arcadiae, V.

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