Next at hand: nigh: almost: in a maner. Plaut. Nemo audet prope accedere. To come nigh. Propè adest, quum alieno more viuendum est mihi. Sub tempus. Ter. The time is almost come, that I must, &c. Probrum atque partitudo propè adest vt fiar palm. Plaut. The time is almoste at hand, when that, &c. Decimus mensis aduentar prope. Plaut. The tenth moneth is at hande. Alterius gladium prope appositum è vagina educit. Cicer. Lying by him. Prope intueri, & Procul spectare, contraria. Cic. To behold a thing harde by. Volebam prope alicubi esses. Cic. Prope est quando herus qui quod faciam, pretium exoluet mihi. Plaut. The time is at hande, or almost come that my Maister shall pay me for that I shall doe. Multos dixi: prope est vt omnes sint. Sen. Prope. Plau. Wel neare: in a maner. Prope iam vt pro vxore haberet. Teren. In such sort that hee vsed hir in manner as his wife. Annos prope quinquaginta continuos. Cicero. Almost fiftie yeares continually. Quorum honoribus agri, prope dicam ipsi montes fauerunt. Cic. I may almost or in a manner say, &c. Prope desperatis rebus. Cicer. All things being almost paste hope. Non humano consilio, sed prope diuinitus datum. Ci. Prope nouum genus dicendi. Cic. In philosophia prope singularis. Cice. Prope solus. Cic. Prope est factum, vt iniussu Prætoris signis cõuulsis in aciÊ exirent. Liu. It came almost e, or it lacked but litle &c. Iam prope erat vt sinistrum cornu peller Romanis, ni septima legio successisset. Liui. By this tinir lacked but little, but that the left wing, &c.

I. Adv. (comp. propius, and sup. proxime, v. under propior), near, nigh (class.).

A. Lit., in space: quaenam vox mihi prope hic sonat? Quis hic loquitur prope? Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 10: prope ad aliquem adire, id. Cas. 3, 5, 32: aedes accedere, id. Most. 2, 2, 16: prope alicubi esse, Cic. Fam. 9, 7, 1: intueri aliquid (opp. procul), id. Sen. 14, 48.—

2. With ab, near to, near by, hard by: bellum tam prope a Siciliā, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 2, 6: prope a meis aedibus, id. Pis. 11, 26: prope ab domo detineri, id. Verr. 2, 2, 3, 6.—So, comp.: stellae, aliae propius a terris, etc., Cic. N. D. 1, 31, 87: propius visere mala reipublicae, Tac. A. 6, 26.—

B. Transf.

1. In time, near, not far off: partus instabat prope, was near at hand, Ter Ad. 3, 2, 9.—Esp. with quando, cum, ut, the time is near or not far off, when, etc.: prope est, quando herus pretium exsolvet, Plaut. Men. 5, 6, 25: prope adest, quom alieno more vivendum est mihi, Ter. And. 1, 1, 125: partitudo prope adest, ut fiat palam, Plaut. Aul. 2, 3, 9; Flor. 3, 17, 2: nox prope diremit colloquium, i. e. the approach of night, Liv. 34, 33, 3; cf. id. 32, 28, 7; 5, 16, 5.—

2. In degree, nearly, almost, about (cf.: pene, ferme, fere): ejus filiam ille amare coepit perdite, Prope jam ut pro uxore haberet, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 45; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 4, 10: prope funeratus Arboris ictu, Hor. C. 3, 8, 7: prope firmissima earum regionum civitas, Caes. B. G. 5, 20: annos prope nonaginta natus, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 25, 62: prope desperatis rebus, id. Fam. 7, 28, 1: sic prope oneratum est sinistrum cornu, ni, etc., Liv. 2, 65, 4; cf. id. 40, 32: prope est factum ut exirent, id. 25, 21: prope est ut aliquid fiat, something must be done, Dig. 35, 1, 67: prope perditae res, Liv. 5, 46, 7: Fidenae prope saepius captae, quam, etc., id. 4, 32, 2: prope desertum oppidum, id. 4, 51, 8.—After the word it qualifies: biennium prope, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 25, 62: princeps prope Stoicorum, id. Ac. 2, 33, 107: eisdem prope verbis, id. Leg. 2, 25, 64: his prope verbis id. Fin. 4, 6, 15: cursu prope Chalcidem contendit, Liv. 31, 24, 2: admirabilior prope, id. 22, 37, 3: omnes prope, id. 1, 14, 4; 23, 49, 14; 30, 30, 8.— Comp.: propius nihil est factum, quam ut, etc., Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 5, 15: neque quidquam propius est factum, quam ut, etc., id. Clu. 21, 59.—

C. Trop., comp. propius, with inspicio, considero, nosco, etc., more closely, better (post - Aug.): qualis esset ejus (mortis) velut propius inspectae natura, Sen. Ep. 30, 8: propius inspicere aliquem, id. ib. 5, 6: dixit futurum ut diviti displiceret propius inspectus, id. Contr. 2, 9, 21, B.; 4, 15, 3; 10, 95, 1: quam (lancem) cum Agamemnon propius consideraret, Petr. 1, 50: propius noscendum, Plin. Ep. 6, 16, 7; cf. penitus.—

II. Prep. with acc.

A. Lit., in space, near, near by, hard by: prope oppidum, Caes. B. G. 7, 36: prope hostium castra, id. ib. 1, 22: prope amnem, Verg. A. 8, 597: non modo prope me, sed plane mecum habitare, Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 4: sedens prope limina tecti, Ov. F. 1, 137.—

B. Transf.

1. In time, nigh, towards, about: prope lucem, towards daybreak, Suet. Claud. 44.—

2. Of abstract proximity, near to, almost to, not far from: prope metum res fuerat, Liv. 1, 25 fin.: prope seditionem ventum est, Tac. H. 3, 21; Dig. 17, 1, 29.