Hauing the face dowuewarde: pronts inclined: stouping downe: readie: easie: nigh at hand. Supinus & pronus, contraria. Plin. Proni decurrere monte parabant. Sil. Pronus ad Meridiem locus. Vatro. A place lying toward the south. Pronus soli, & ad solem. Col. Lying open to the simne. Pronus in ventrem. Varro. Lying slatte on his bellie. Pronus bibis aquam. Martial. Thou stoupest downe & drinkest water. Aurigæ pendent proni in verbera. Virg. Mirtere aliquem pronÛ. Catul. To cast one down headlong. Pronus. Plin. iun. Easte: readie: light. Pronum ad honores iter. Plin. iun. A readie and easle waye to promotion and dignitie. Romani sic habuere: alia omnia virtuti suæ prona esse: cum Gallis pro salute, non pro gloria certari. Salust. That all other things were easte for their vertue and manhoode to attaine. Prona petit maria. Virg. He saileth towarde the partes of the sea next the banckes, or towarde the sea side. Pronus, per translationem. Pli. iu. Prone. inclined: bent to vice or to vertue. Pronior huic rei. pro In hanc rem. Suet. More inclined to. Honori alicuius pronior. Stat. Proniores paci. Valer. Flac More inclined or bent to peace: more willing to haue peace. Pronus ad hæc. Sueton. Ad omne nefas pronus. Lucan. Proniores ad iracundiam. Plin. Pronus ad fidem. Liu. Credible: like to be true. In aliquid pronior. Quint. In bellum pronus. Lucan. In obsequium plus æquo pronus. Hora. Aer pronus. Ouid. Aetas ad vitia maximè prona. Quint. Most inclined. Illum in præceps prono rapit alueus amne. Virg. The riuer caryeth him downe with the streame swistly. Anni proni. Hor. Yeares quickely passing away. Aqua prona. Virg. Water running with the streame. Aures pronas accommodare. Clau. Redily to barken to one. Auribus pronis aliquid accipere. Tacit. Willingly to heare. Aures superbæ & offensioni proniores. Tacit, Proud eares and quickly offended. Crateres proni. Stat. Cuppes turned vpside downe. Currus proni. Stat. Decursus pronus. Catul. Dies prona. Stat. The day bending to an ende. Fides prona venit. Ouid. They easily beleeue it. Iuuentus prona in venerem. Ouid. Inclined to. Lapsus pronus. Claud. An easie falling. Pronus lapsusfidei. Plin. An easle and readie erraur in soone veleeuing that is false. Largitor pronus. Claud. Manu prona fundere vinum. Tibul. Mens prona in ferrum. Lucan. Menses pronos voluere. Hor. When time or moneths passeth away quickly. Morus corporis pronus, obliquus, supinus. Cic. The bending of the bodie downewarde, sidelong, vpright. Sententia prona. Val. Flac. Via prona. Ouid. A falling or hanging way bending downe.

I. Lit., turned forward, bent or inclined, leaning or hanging forward, stooping, bending down (class.; opp. supinus; cf. cernuus).

1. Of living beings: puerum imponere equo pronum in ventrem, Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 13: pronus pendens in verbera, leaning forward to strike, Verg. A. 10, 586: ipsum Pronum sterne solo, id. ib. 11, 485: pronus magister Volvitur in caput, id. ib. 1, 115: pecora, quae natura prona finxit, Sall. C. 1, 1; Ov. M. 8, 379.—Poet., of those running swiftly, Ov. M. 10, 652: leporem pronum catulo sectare sagaci, flying swiftly, id. R. Am. 201.—

2. Of things, bending forward or downward, going or inclined downward: ilex paulum modo prona, dein flexa, Sall. J. 93, 4: prona ac fastigiata tigna, Caes. B. G. 4, 17: pronae atque vergentes ampullae, Plin. Ep. 4, 30, 6: demissus inde pronusque pulvinus, id. ib. 5, 6, 16: (urbs) prona in paludes, sinking down, Liv. 4, 59: crateres, overturned, Stat. Th. 5, 255: motus corporis, Cic. Div. 1, 53, 120: cubitus, Plin. 28, 4, 14, 54: prona via, steep, Ov. M. 2, 67: amnis, Verg. G. 1, 203: rivi, Hor. C. 1, 29, 11: currus, Ov. M. 5, 424. —Absol.: nihil habent proni et supera semper petunt, Cic. Tusc. 1, 18, 42: per pronum ire, downwards, Sen. Ep. 123, 14: per prona voluti, Sil. 15, 235.—

B. In partic.

1. Of the heavenly bodies, of time, etc., setting, sinking, declining (poet.): pronus Orion, Hor. C. 3, 27, 18: sidera, Prop. 1, 16, 23: Titan, Ov. M. 11, 257: dies, Stat. Th. 2, 41: menses (=celeriter praetereuntes), Hor. C. 4, 6, 39: anni, id. A. P. 60.—

2. Of localities, turned, looking, or lying towards (postAug.).

(a). With dat.: loca Aquiloni prona, Col. 3, 2, 6: aedificii solum pronius orienti, situated more to the east, id. 1, 5, 8.—

(b). With ad: campo patente et ad solem prono, Col. 2, 9, 3.—

II. Trop., inclined, disposed, prone to any thing (class.); usu. constr. with ad, in aliquid, or dat.; poet. also with gen.

A. In gen.

(a). With ad: rei publicae genus inclinatum et quasi pronum ad perniciosissimum statum, Cic. Rep. 2, 26, 47: anxitudo prona ad luctum, id. ib. 2, 41, 68 (from Non. 72, 31): boves ad domandum proni, Varr. R. R. 1, 2: pronus ad omne nefas, Luc. 6, 147: pronus ad cujusque necem, Suet. Vit. 14: ad poëticam, id. Ner. 50: ad simultates, Plin. Pan. 84.—Sup.: ad indulgentias pronissimus, Capit. Anton. 10, 8.—

(b). With in and acc.: in obsequium plus aequo pronus, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 10: in libidines, Suet. Caes. 50: saeculum in omnia mala, Flor. 4, 12.—Prov.: prona est timori semper in pejus fides, Sen. Herc. Fur. 316. —

(g). With dat.: pronus deterioribus, Tac. Agr. 41 fin.—Comp.: aures offensioni proniores, Tac. A. 4, 29 fin.—

(d). With gen. (poet.): ruendi In ferrum mens prona viris, Luc. 1, 461.—Comp.: unus audendi pronior, Claud. Ruf. 2, 400.—

B. In partic.

1. Inclined to favor, favorable to any thing (post-Aug.).

(a). With dat.: si modo prona bonis invicti Caesaris assint Numina, Stat. S. 4, 8, 61.—Comp.: cohors Cn. Dolabellae pronior, Suet. Galb. 12.—

(b). With in and acc.: prona in eum aula Neronis, Tac. H. 1, 13.—Comp.: ut quis misericordiā in Germanicum pronior, Tac. A. 2, 73: in verum nepotem, Suet. Cat. 19.—

(g). Absol.: prona sententia, Val. Fl. 8, 340: pronis auribus accipere aliquid, Tac. H. 1, 1; Luc. 5, 501.— Comp.: quos pronior fortuna comitatur, Vell. 2, 69, 6.—

2. Easy, without difficulty (mostly post - Aug.): omnia virtuti suae prona esse, Sall. J. 114, 2: omnia prona victoribus, Tac. Agr. 33: pronum ad honores iter, Plin. Ep. 8, 10, 3: via ad regnum, Just. 1, 5, 9: pronum est, it is easy: agere memoratu digna pronum erat, Tac. Agr. 1: invitos praebere deos, Luc. 6, 606: facile et pronum est agere, Juv. 9, 43.—Comp.: id pronius ad fidem est, is easier to believe, Liv. 21, 28.—Hence, adv.: prōnē, downwards, pronely (post-class.).

A. Lit., Paul. Petr. Vit. S. Mart. 4, 546.—

B. Trop., readily, willingly; comp. pronius, Amm. 30, 8, 10.