procudo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

prō-cūdo, di, sum, 3, v. a.,

I to fashion or make by hammering , to forge a thing.

A Lit. (poet.): in acuta et tenuia posse Mucronum duci fastigia procudendo, Lucr. 5, 1265: enses, Hor. C. 4, 15, 19: vomeris obtusi dentem, Verg. G. 1, 261.—

2 Transf., in gen., to bring forth , produce : ignem, Lucr. 2, 1115: prolem propagando, id. 5, 856.—

B Trop., to form , cultirate (rare but class.): legendo et scribendo vitam procudito, Varr. ap. Non. 156, 28: non solum acuenda nobis, neque procudenda lingua est, sed, etc., Cic. de Or. 3, 30, 121: ingenium, Amm. 15, 2, 8.—

2 Transf., in gen., to forge , contrive , bring forth , produce (ante-class.): haec mihi incus est; procudam ego hinc hodie multos dolos, to forge artifices , Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 20: voluptatem, Lucr. 3, 1081.

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