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|lshtext=<b>prō-culco</b>: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [[calco]],<br /><b>I</b> to [[tread]] [[down]], [[trample]] [[upon]] ([[mostly]] [[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: [[turbatus]] [[eques]] sua [[ipse]] subsidia territis equis proculcavit, Liv. 10, 36, 5: crescenti segetes proculcat in herbā, Ov. M. 8, 290; cf. Sev. ap. Sen. Suas. 6, 26, 26 sq.—Of a [[Centaur]]: pedibusque virum proculcat equinis, Ov. M. 12, 374: [[solum]], Col. 3, 13, 6: uvas, id. 12, 19, 3; cf. id. 12, 15, 3; Phaedr. 1, 32, 9: nepotem, [[trample]] to [[death]], Just. 44, 4, 4: una ala ipso impetu proculcata erat, crushed, Curt. 3, 11, 14: aliquem, Tac. H. 3, 81: materiam, Just. 38, 10, 3: qui tot proculcavimus nives, [[have]] [[trodden]], i. e. traversed, Curt. 6, 3, 16.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop., to [[trample]] [[upon]], [[tread]] under [[foot]], [[despise]]: qui fata proculcavit, Sen. Phoen. 193: proculcato senatu, Tac. H. 1, 40: proculcata desertaque [[respublica]], Suet. Vesp. 5: contumeliosā voce, Val. Max. 9, 5, 3.—Hence, prōculcātus, a, um, P. a., [[trodden]] [[down]]; trop., = [[tritus]], [[trodden]] under [[foot]], [[mean]], [[low]], [[common]] ([[post]]-[[class]].): verba proculcata [[vulgo]] et protrita, Gell. 18, 4, 6; cf. id. 17, 2, 10.

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