verb
prō-cresco
Meaning
- To grow forth
prō-cresco, ĕre, 3,
I. v. inch. n.
I. To grow forth, spring up, arise, proceed (ante- and post-class.):
quattuor ex rebus posse omnia procrescere, Lucr. 1, 715.—B. Trop.:
vis morbi procrescit, Lucr. 6, 664.—II. To continue to grow, to grow up, grow larger, increase. *
A. Lit.:
res progigni et genitas procrescere posse, Lucr. 2, 566.—* B. Trop.:
qui (amor) si officiorum ratione coleretur, non ultra myrtos laurusque procresceret, Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 1, 2 Mai.