Far away from vs be such yongmen as are effeminately trimmed like women. Procul conspectu imperij. Cic. Procul iudicio remota est. Cic. Quis tam procul literis, quin, &c. Quin. Who is so vtterly vulearned, but that, &c. Procul esse naturæ cognitione. Cic. Procul patria. Virg. -visus sum videre Procul sedere longè me Aesculapium. Plau. Me thought I saw Aesculapins sit a far off frõ me. Procul ab ostentationc posita res. Quint. De procul, Vide DE præpositionem. Procul, aliquando præpositio est. & interdum ablatiuo, nonnunquam accusatiuo iungitur. Accusatiuo. Curtius. Procul vrbem. Farre from the citie. Locus procul muros. Liu. A place farre off from the walles. Ablatiuo. Curtius. Procul muro. Farre off from the wall. Procul mari incolebant. Liu. Farre from the sea. Non procui Oceano habet. Plin. Procul patria. Cic. Haud procul Neapoli. Plin. Ambitione procul. Horat. Procul discordibus armis. Virg. Procul dubio. Suet. Without all doubt. Illud procul vero est. quod plerique crediderunt, facillimam esse, nec vllius acuminis rusticationem. Col. That is verie false or farre from al trueth.

I. Lit., of place (class.; cf.: longe, eminus); constr. absol.; with adv. of place; with ab and abl. (not in Cic., Cæs., or Sall.); with abl. alone: 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.—

II. Trop., far, distant, remote; constr, with ab, the abl., or absol.: 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: quis 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.—

B. In partic. (post-Aug. and very rare), in estimation of value, far removed from, much inferior to: aes suo colore pretiosum, procul a Corinthio (est), is far beneath or inferior to, much poorer than, Plin. 34, 2, 3, 8.