High: long: tall. Sues procero corpore. Var. Alni proceræ. Vir. Arundo procera. Oui. Cacumina procera nemoris celsi. Sil. Cohors procera. Claud. Membra procera. Stat. Corpus procerum. Lucr. Nemora. Plin. iun. Fraxini proceræ. Hora. Palmæ proceræ. Catul. Proferte proceros passus viæ. Lucret. To goe on with long strides. Syluæ proceræ. Ouid. Procerior numerus. Cic. A longer measure of feete in meter. Procerissimus homo. Plin. A verie tall man. Procerissima populus. Cic. A verie high poplar.

I. Lit. (class.; cf. excelsus): procerum collum, Cic. Brut. 91, 313: boves cornibus proceris, Col. 6, 1, 3: in procero corpore, Plin. Ep. 4, 9, 22: homo procerae staturae, Suet. Vesp. 23: habitu procerus, Tac. H. 4, 1: pueritia, id. ib. 4, 14: homo procerior, Col. 3, 8, 2: usus est calceamentis altiusculis, ut procerior videretur, Suet. Aug. 73: (Galatea) floridior pratis, longa procerior alno, Ov. M. 13, 790: inter hos procerissimos populos, Cic. Leg. 1, 5, 15: procerissimus quisque, Suet. Calig. 47: cohortes, Sil. 15, 717: statura, Vulg. Num. 13, 33.—Of plants, trees: procerissimae populi, Cic. Leg. 1, 5, 15: quid enim abiete procerius? Plin. 17, 4, 3, 26: proceras lauros, Cat. 64, 289: silvae, Ov. H. 16, 107; Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 7: Pompeianum (genus) procerius, Plin. 19, 8, 41, 140.—

B. In partic., perh. the name of a company of tall soldiers, similar to our grenadiers: VETERANVS EX PROCERIORIBVS, Inscr. Murat. 800, 2.—

II. Transf., in gen., long, extended, large: passus, Lucr. 4, 827: aves procero rostro, Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 101: lupi, large, Hor. S. 2, 2, 36; cf.: thoes, luporum id genus est, procerius longitudine, Plin. 8, 34, 52, 123: procerior cauda, id. 8, 45, 70, 183: dextera, id. 11, 43, 99, 245: proceriores uniones, id. 9, 35, 56, 113: cucurbitae, id. 19, 5, 24, 72: syllabae procerae sunt, quae vocalem longam habent in paenultima, ut facultas, long, Varr. ap. Diom. p. 423 P.: anapaestus, procerior numerus, Cic. de Or. 3, 48, 185.— Poet.: plangebant aliae proceris tympana palmis, i. e. outstretched, upraised, Cat. 64, 289.—Hence, adv.: prōcērē; comp.: bracchium procerius projectum, stretched out to a greater length, Cic. de Or. 3, 59, 220.