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|lshtext=<b>prŏcer</b>: ĕris, in sing. [[only]] Juv. 8, 26, and [[Capitol]]. Max. 2; prŏcĕres, um (anteclass. collat. form prŏcus, i, in the<br /><b>I</b> gen. plur.: procum patricium in descriptione classium [[quam]] facit, Serv. [[Tullius]], significat procerum, Fest. p. 249 Müll.; cf.: jam (ut censoriae tabulae loquuntur) fabrum et procum [[audeo]] dicere, non fabrorum et procorum, Cic. Or. 46, 156), m. pro and [[root]] kar- of [[creo]]; cf. procērus.<br /><b>I</b> Lit., a [[chief]], [[noble]]; plur., the [[leading]] men, chiefs, nobles, princes ([[class]].; syn.: primores, optimates, primi): scindunt [[proceres]] [[Pergamum]], the Grecian chiefs, princes, * Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 130: audiebam nostros [[proceres]] clamitantes, Cic. Fam. 13, 15, 1: Latinorum, Liv. 1, 45, 2: Etruscorum, id. 2, 10: ego proceribus civitatis annumeror, Tac. A. 14, 53: [[Caecina]] [[Largus]] e proceribus, Plin. 17, 1, 1, § 5: delectos populi ad [[proceres]], Verg. A. 3, 58: castrorum, Luc. 7, 69: in procerum coetu, id. 8, 261; Juv. 2, 121; 3, 213: [[proceres]] rerum, Sil. 11, 142.—Transf., of bees: procerum [[seditio]], Col. 9, 9, 6.—In sing.: [[agnosco]] procerem, Juv. 8, 26: in pueritiā fuit [[pastor]] [[nonnumquam]] et [[procer]], a [[leader]], [[captain]], [[Capitol]]. Max. 2.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop., the [[foremost]] or [[most]] [[celebrated]] men, the masters in an [[art]], [[science]], etc. ([[post]]-Aug.): [[proceres]] artis ejus (medicinae), Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 26: sapientiae, id. 7, 30, 31, § 112: gulae, id. 9, 17, 30, § 66: indicatis in genere [[utroque]] (pingendi) proceribus, id. 35, 11, 40, § 138.

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