Porro, Aduerbium, significat Cerrè. Cic.Surely: certainly.Nihil porro tam in humanÛ.Cic.Surely there is nothing. Porrò.Virg.A worde of exhortation. vt, Lege porro, nam de isto, &c. Cic. Porrò.Virg.Long time after. Hinc maxima porrò accepit Roma. &c. Virg. Aduerbium loci: vt, Si ire porró pergas.Liu.If thon goe any further.Quæ sint flumina porrò.Virg.What those ciuers bee a far off. Porrò, Aduerbium ordinis.Terent. Vt, quid agam porrò intelligas. That thou mayst vnderstande what I wil doe after. Vt quiescant porrò moneo. Te. I aduise them to be quiet and content henceforth or hereafter.Noua res orta est, porro ab hac quæ me abstrahar.Terent.There is a newe matter risen, that wil from hencefoorth withdrawe me from hir.Quid restat, nisi porrò vt fiam miser? Te.What remaineth, but that in the end, I become a miserable wretch vndon?Eunuchum porrò dixi velle re. Terentius. Moreouer, thou saidst, &c.Quod ad haue rem opus est, porrò consule.Terent.Hereafter consult and take aduisement what is nee deful in this matter.Iacc pater talos, vt porrò nos iaciamus. Plau. That we may cast afterwarde.Etiamné est, quid porrò? Plau.Is there any thing else?Quid deinde porrò? Pluat.What more folowed after? Porrò, Coniunctio, pro AVTEM ponitur, locatur que in principio orationis. Quint. Porrò, qui confessum defendit, non absolutionem sceleris petit, sed licentiam. But he which, o yea, and he which defendeth, &c.Occurrebat mancam, ac debilem Præturam fuam futuram Consule Milone, eum porrò sÛmo cõsÊsu Pop. Romani Consulem fieri videbat. Cic.And moreouer he saw, &c. Porrò, pro coniunctione expletiua aliquando ponitur.
Porrus, ri, m. g. vel Portum porri, n. g. Cels. Mart. A leeke.Sectile porrum. Iuuenal. Leeke blades to bee cut.Sectiui porri fila. Iuuenal. De porris capitatis est epigramma. Mart.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
porro, adv. [root pra-; Sanscr. prathamus, primus; Lat. prae, pro, prior; cf. Gr. po/rrw, pro/sw], forward, onward, farther on, to a distance, at a distance, after off, far.I.Lit., in space, with verbs both of motion and of rest (rare and mostly anteclass.), Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 18: porro agere armentum, Liv. 1, 7, 6: ire, id. 9, 2.—So ellipt.: porro Quirites, on! hither! ye Romans! Laber. ap. Macr. S. 2, 7; Tert. adv. Val. 13 (al. proh).—With verbs of rest: habitare, Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 95: inscius Aeneas, quae sint ea flumina porro, Verg. A. 6, 711: campi deinde porro, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 18.—II.Transf.A. In time. 1.Of old, aforetime, formerly (very rare): altera (Nympha), quod porro fuerat, cecinisse putatur, Ov. F. 1, 635.—2.Henceforth, hereafter, afterwards, in future: me sollicitum habitum esse atque porro fore, Cato ap. Charis. p. 190 P.; Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 36: quid in animo Celtiberi haberent aut porro habituri essent, Liv. 40, 36: fac, eadem ut sis porro, Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 38; id. Phorm. 5, 7, 44: move ocius te, ut, quid agam, porro intellegas, id. And. 4, 3, 16: dehinc ut quiescant porro moneo, id. ib. prol. 22: hinc maxima porro Accepit Roma, et patrium servavit honorem,
in aftertimes
, Verg. A. 5, 600.— B. In a series. 1. In gen., again, in turn, Plaut. As. 5, 2, 25: saepe audivi a majoribus natu, qui se porro pueros a senibus audisse dicebant, Cic. Sen. 13, 43; Liv. 27, 51.—2. In partic., in discourse. a. In the progress of an argument, or in a sequence of ideas, then, next, furthermore, moreover, besides: sequitur porro, nihil deos ignorare, Cic. Div. 2, 51, 105; id. Rosc. Am. 40, 116; id. Rep. 1, 17, 26: age porro, tu, qui, etc., id. Verr. 2, 5, 22, 56; id. Mil. 9, 25: Habonium porro intellegebat rem totam esse patefacturum, id. Verr. 2, 1, 57, 149; Juv. 6, 240; 3, 126: porro autem anxius erat, quid facto opus esset, Sall. C. 46, 2: quid fit deinde? porro loquere,
say on
, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 69: porro dicere, id. Curc. 3, 83.—b.Then, on the other hand, but: porro erant qui censerent, Caes. B. C. 2, 30: porro si in digito Dei eicio daemonas, Vulg. Luc. 11, 10 (but the true read., Cic. Fin. 5, 26, 78, is paene).
porrum, i, n., and porrus, i, m. [pra/son], a leek, scallion; of two kinds, capitatum and sectile, the latter our chives, Col. 8, 11, 14; Plin. 19, 6, 33, 108; Mart. 3, 47, 8; 3, 13, 18; 19; Juv. 3, 293; 14, 133.