1. procul — de Vaan
The corpus record — Latin
procul
procul
some distance away, (far) away, apart
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Epicedion in Patrem 4 · 105.54/10k
- De Herediolo 1 · 44.84/10k
- Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 2 · 36.5/10k
- Precationes 1 · 21.6/10k
- Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 5 · 19.14/10k
- de Bello Gothico 6 · 14.88/10k
- Argonautica 55 · 14.8/10k
- Elegiae 18 · 14.57/10k
- Pelopidas 1 · 14.04/10k
- Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 3 · 13.95/10k
- Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 3 · 13.72/10k
- Octavia 7 · 13.38/10k
Densest 12 of 202 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. prŏcul — Lewis & Short
prŏcul, adv.procello, to drive away,
cuja vox sonat procul?Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 18:
sequi procul,id. Poen. 3, 3, 6:
non jam procul, sed hic praesentes sua templa dii defendunt,Cic. Cat. 2, 13. 29:
ubi turrim constitui procul viderunt,Caes. B. G. 2, 30:
jubet, ut procul tela coniciant, neu propius accedant,id. ib. 5, 34:
procul attendere,Cic. de Or. 2, 36, 153:
procul e fluctu Trinacria,Verg. A. 3, 554:
est procul in pelago saxum,id. ib. 5, 124:
procul et e longinquo,Plin. 27, 3, 2, § 9:
omnibus arbitris procul amotis,Sall. C. 20, 1:
procul o, procul este, profani,keep aloof! Verg. A. 6, 258:
cui procul astanti, Pettalus irridens dixit,Ov. M. 5, 114; cf.:
adstans non procul,App. M. 7, p. 183, 14.—With other particles of place, as hinc, inde, alicunde, longe, etc.:
procul hinc stans,at a distance from this place, Ter. Hec. 4, 3, 1; Plaut. Truc. 4, 1, 11:
istic procul,id. Mil. 4, 4, 33:
istinc procul,id. Rud. 4, 4, 104:
procul inde,Ov. Am. 3, 14, 18:
procul alicunde,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 20, § 48:
procul longe,Plaut. Curc. 2, 2, 10.— With a or ab, far from, far away from (class.):
procul a terrā abripi,Cic. de Or. 3, 36, 145:
esse procul a conspectu,far out of sight, id. Agr. 2, 32, 87:
a castris,Caes. B. G. 5, 17:
a portā,Liv. 1, 12, 8:
ab Ariciā,id. 2, 26, 5:
ab hoste,id. 7, 37, 6:
a domo,id. 4, 18, 1; 5, 4, 11:
a patriā,id. 23, 29, 7; Verg. E. 10, 46:
a mari,Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 227:
a Pado,id. 3, 17, 21, § 124:
a litore,Quint. 12, prooem. § 2:
ab ore,id. 11, 3, 96:
a fratre,Plin. Ep. 5, 9, 3:
a mari,Sen. Q. N. 6, 7 fin.—With simple abl., far from, far away from: patriā procul, Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6, 1 (Trag. v. 295 Vahl.):
urbe,Ov. P. 1, 5, 73:
ripā Tiberis,Liv. 2, 13, 6:
oppido,id. 3, 22, 4:
moenibus,id. 4, 10, 5:
Nomento,id. 4, 22, 2:
mari,Liv. 38, 16, 15:
haud procul castris,Tac. H. 4, 22:
Teutoburgiensi Saltu,id. A. 1, 60:
regno,id. ib. 2, 67:
non procul Euripidis poëtae sepulcro,Plin. 31, 2, 19, § 28:
urbe Romā,id. 2, 94, 96, § 209:
oppido,id. 3, 3, 4, § 21.—
conscia mihi sum a me culpam hanc esse procul,Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 50:
procul ab omni metu,Cic. Tusc. 5, 14, 41:
viri, qui sunt procul ab aetatis hujus memoriā,id. Rep. 1, 1, 1:
caelestia procul sunt a nostrā cognitione,id. Ac. 1, 4, 15:
res procul ab ostentatione positae,Quint. 1, prooem. § 4: q
uis tam procul a litteris, quin sic incipiat,so unacquainted with letters, so unlettered, id. 7, 1, 46; 8, 3, 23:
ab odio, ab irā,id. 6, 2, 14:
a sapiente,Sen. Ira, 1, 6, 4:
ab omni negotio,id. Brev. Vit. 11, 2:
a praesenti modestiā,Tac. A. 12, 6.— With simple abl.:
liber invidiā, procul contentionibus,Quint. 12, 11, 7:
eam (plebem) procul urbe haberi,out of public affairs, Liv. 4, 58, 12:
procul negotiis,Hor. Epod. 2, 1:
ambitione,id. S. 1, 6, 52:
voluptatibus habere aliquem,to keep one aloof from enjoyments, deprive him of them, Tac. A. 4, 62:
tali more,id. ib. 4, 28:
procul dubio,without doubt, Quint. 1, 5, 14; 9, 1, 27; Plin. 9, 61, 87, § 184; Liv. 39, 40, 10; Suet. Ner. 3;
for which: dubio procul,Flor. 2, 6; Lucr. 1, 812:
procul vero est,far from the truth, untrue, Col. 1 praef. fin.—Absol.:
assentatio vitiorum adjutrix procul amoveatur,Cic. Lael. 24, 89:
homines superbissimi procul errant,err widely, greatly, Sall. J. 85, 38:
pauperies immunda domus procul absit, i.e. pauperies domestica procul absit,Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 199:
durabisne procul dominoque legere superstes, Thebai?Stat. Th. 12, 810: non procul est quin, it does not want much of, etc., almost, nearly, Sil. 2, 335:
haud procul est quin Romam agnosceret,Liv. 1, 5, 6.—
In the wild
- procul Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.8.24.13
- procul Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 29 p6
- procul Livy, Ab urbe condita 3bis.39.25.11
- procul Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 22 p6
- procul Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.841
- procul Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 14.6.p6
6 of 1,713 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. procul (scan pp. 505-506; entry #1401). Root candidates: *prokelo-, *niyuula-, *proculo-.
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. procul (scan pp. 561-562; entry #9216).
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