To go or come forth or from: to depart: to begin: to haue his beginning of a thing. Præterea te aiunt proficifci Cyprum. Tere. Moreouer they say you go to Cyprus. Proficiscor quæsitum Plaut. I go to seeke. Quò profectus sum, ibo. Plaut. I will go on thither as I began: I will go through on my iourney. Profecta est illinc granpiuscula. Terent. Shee went thence being of good bigge stature. Copiosè aliquò proficisci, Vide COPIA. Populus profectus ad bella. Ouid. Profectus ad Capuam. Cic. To go to Capus. Proficiscitur ad Catonem. Cic. Proficifci ad domum. Cic. To go to the house. Proficisci ad somnum. Ci. To go or lie downe to sleepe. De Formiano proficiscemut. Cice. We wil depart from my manour of Formium. Ex hoc loco proficiscitur Puteolos. Cic. Profectus in exilium Tubulus slatim. Cic. In consilium cœrumque proficisci. Cic. Reliquas proficiscitur ciuitates. Cæs. He goeth to the other cities. Ostiam vesperi naui profectus erat cum his rebus, quas tibi domo mitti volueras. Cic. In the euening he sayled to Ostia. &c. Proficisci obuiam. Cæs. To go to meete. Proficiscemur ad reliqua, si pauca. &c. Ci. We will passe to other things if. &c. Pythagorei ex numeris proficisci volunt omnia. Cic. The Pythagorians will haue all thinges to proceede or haue their beginning of numbers. Omnia me in te profecta sunt, quæ ad tuum commodum pertinerent. Cicer. I haue done all things for you that I thought to be for your commoditie and profite. Ab his initijs noster in te amor profectus. Cic. Our loue toward you hauing this beginning. Beneficia solent ijs esse fructuosa quibus sune profecta. C. From whome they proceeded. Profecta causa natura. Cic. A cause proceeding of nature. Proficiscitur meis cõsilijs tua laus. Ci. It is by my coÛsaile that ye haue go: ten so great praise and renoune. Venæ & arteriæ corde tractæ & profectæ. Cic. Quæcunque me ornamenta, ad te proficiscuntur. Cicero. Wharsoeuer honourable benefits I do for you. Vtinde oratio mea proficiscatur, vude hæc omnis causa ducitur. &c. Ci. That my talke may begin there, whence. &c.

I. Lit.: proficisci ad dormiendum, to go to sleep, Cic. Div. 2, 58, 119: ad somnum, id. ib. 1, 30, 62: ad sedes inquirendas, Just. 3, 4, 10: pabulatum frumentatumque, Hirt. B. G. 8, 10: subsidio alicui, Nep. Iph. 2, 5: ad bellum, Caes. B. G. 6, 29; Liv. 4, 45 sq.; Nep. Alc. 4, 1: ad eam domum, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 27, 69: Puteolos, id. Ac. 2, 31: in Illyricum, Caes. B. G. 3, 7: in pugnam, id. B. C. 3, 99: in bellum, Just. 2, 11, 9; Gell. 17, 9, 8: in expeditionem, Sall. J. 103, 4: in Volscos, Liv. 2, 30; 2, 62; Just. 1, 6, 10: in exercitum, Plaut. Am. 5, 2, 7: hinc in pistrinum rectā viā, Ter. And. 3, 4, 21: contra quosdam barbaros, Nep Eum 3, 5: Cyprum, Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 16: Corinthum, id. Hec. 1, 2, 11: domum, id. Phorm. 5, 6, 20: Genabum, Caes. B. G. 7, 1: Romam, Sall. C. 34, 1: domos, Liv. 2, 14: Circeios, id. 2, 39: jussit proficisci exilium quovis gentium, Att. ap. Non. 185, 6 (Trag. Rel. v 599 Rib.): Jovinus eadem loca profectus, Amm 27, 8, 2.—With supine: porro proficiscor quaesitum, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 98.—Absol.: proficisci, to make a journey, Dig. 17, 2, 52: ab urbe, to set out, depart, Caes. B. G. 1, 7: ab Antio, Liv. 2, 33: ex castris, to break up, Caes. B. C. 1, 78: e castris, id. ib. 1, 12: domo, Sall. J. 79, 4; Liv. 2, 26; 2, 4: portu, id. 9, 26: regno, Just. 37, 3, 4: Athenis, Nep. Milt. 1, 5: de Formiano, Cic. Att. 2, 8, 2.—

B. Transf., to be going or about to go, to intend to go to a place, to start (ante-class.): potin' ut me ire, quo profectus sum, sinas? Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 2: tu profectus alio fueras, Ter Eun. 2, 2, 49: cum proficisceretur, Caes. B. G. 3, 1; Cic. Cat. 2, 7, 15; Hor. Ep. 1, 13, 1; 2, 2, 20.—

II. Trop.

A. In gen., to go, come, proceed: nunc proficiscemur ad reliqua, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 5, 10.—

B. In partic.

1. To set out, begin, commence: ut inde oratio mea proficiscatur, unde, etc., Cic. Imp. Pomp. 2, 4: cum omnis haec quaestio ab eo proficiscatur, id. Fin. 5, 8, 23; a philosophiā profectus Xenophon scripsit historiam, id. de Or. 2, 14, 58: ei proficiscendum est ab omni mundo, id. Fin. 3, 22, 73.—

2. To come forth, spring, arise, proceed, originate: cum omnia officia a principiis naturae proficiscantur, ab iisdem necesse est proficisci ipsam sapientiam, Cic. Fin. 3, 7, 23; 1, 12, 42; 3, 6, 22: falsis initiis profecta, id. ib. 1, 21, 72: ex medicinā nihil oportet putare proficisci, nisi quod ad corporis utilitatem spectet, id. Inv. 1, 38, 68: quaecumque a me ornamenta ad te proficiscentur, shall pass from me to you, i. e. you shall receive from me, id. Fam. 2, 19, 2: omnia quae a me profecta sunt in te, tibi accidisse gratissime, all you have received from me, id. ib. 3, 1, 1: ut plura a parente proficisci non potuerint, Nep. Att. 9, 4: qui a Zenone profecti sunt, who have proceeded from him, his disciples, Cic. Div 1, 3, 5; cf.: omnes ab Aristotele profecti, id. ib. 1, 35, 61.—So, to express descent (poet.): Tyriā de gente profecti, Ov. M. 3, 35; Verg. A. 8, 51.—Act. collat. form prŏfĭcisco, ĕre, to set out, go, etc. (anteclass.): priusquam proficisco, Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 19; hortatur hominem, quam primum proficisceret, Turp. ap. Non. 471, 2.