Prorogo, prórogas, pen. cor. prorogâre. Ci. To prolong: to proroge: to deferre: to put off till a further day.Actatem prorogare. Plin. To continue their life.Aeuum prorogare. Horat. Bellum prorogare.Cic.Dies paucos propter inopiam ad soluendum, alicui prorogare.Cic.To deferre the paiment by reason of ones pouertie till a further day.Prorogat æternam feritas tibi Punica famam. Clau. Horam prorogare recte viuendi. Hor. Imperium prorogare. Cice. To appoynt one to be captayne ouer au armie longer than his day before prefixed.In hyemes prorogant moras. Plin. They deferre it: or prolõg it vntill winter. They tarrie vntill winter.Numerum annorum prorogauit.Cic.To prolong. Prorogare nummos. Vlp. To pay or deliuer money.Prorogare sumptus litiganti. Vlp. To giue or pay a snter his charges.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
prō-rŏgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.I.To prolong, continue, extend, protract (class.; syn.: propago, produco): ne quinquennii imperium Caesari prorogaretur,
should not be prolonged
, Cic. Phil. 2, 10, 24: provinciam, id. Att. 5, 11, 1; 5, 2, 1: ne quid temporis nobis prorogetur (in the province), id. Fam. 3, 10, 3: imperium, Liv. 26, 1: imperium in insequentem annum, id. 9, 42, 2; 10, 22, 9: spatium praeturae in alterum annum, Front. Aquaed. 7: spem militi in alium diem, Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 57: vitae spatium, Tac. A. 3, 51 fin.: moras in hiemes, Plin. 16, 22, 34, 83: memoriam alicujus, Plin. Ep. 7, 31, 5: nominis famam, id. ib. 9, 19, 3.—B.Transf.1.To keep for a long time, to preserve, continue (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): divinis condimentis utere, quī prorogare vitam possis hominibus, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 38: alterum in lustrum, meliusque semper Proroget aevum, Hor. C. S. 67: spiritum homini, Plin. Ep. 2, 20, 7; Sen. Ep. 101, 10: conditum prorogatur, Plin. 22, 22, 37, 79.—2.To put off, defer (class.): dies ad solvendum, Cic. Phil. 2, 29, 74: diem mortis, Sen. Ben. 5, 17, 6.—II.To pay down beforehand, to advance (post-class.): vel prorogante eo, vel repromittente, Dig. 40, 1, 4, 1: si ei nummos prorogavit emptor, ib. 40, 1, 4, 5: pensionem integram, ib. 19, 2, 19, 6.—III.To propagate, perpetuale (post-class.): prorogata familia, Val. Max. 3, 4, 6: sobolem, Just. 2, 4, 21 (dub.; al. generandam).