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prō-crĕo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to bring forth, beget, generate, procreate, produce (class.).
- I. Lit.: procreare liberos lepidum est onus, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 88: multiplices fetus, Cic. N. D. 2, 5, 128: de matrefamilias duo filios, id. Rep. 2, 19, 34: liberos ex tribus uxoribus, Nep. Reg. 2, 3: hoc solum, in quo tu ortus et procreatus es, Cic. Leg. 2, 2, 4; id. Fin. 3, 19, 62; Plin. Pan. 26, 6: natura hinc sensus animantum procreat omnes, Lucr. 2, 880: terra ex minutissimis seminibus tantos truncos ramosque procreat, Cic. Sen. 15, 52.
- II. Trop., to produce, make, cause, occasion (class.): usum, Lucr. 4, 835: tribunatus, cujus primum ortum inter arma civium procreatum videmus, Cic. Leg. 3, 8, 19: vetus verbum est: Leges bonae ex malis moribus procreantur, Macr. S. 2, 13.