Prŏcrustes, ae, m., = Προκρούστης,
a noted highwayman in Attica. He had a bed upon which he compelled travellers to lie down; when they were longer than the bed he cut off as much of their limbs as would suffice to make the length equal; and when they were shorter he stretched them out to its length. He was slain by Theseus : vidit et immitem Cephisias ora Procrusten,