prolicio Latin · revision 36877

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la laciō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''prōliciō''' (present infinitive prōlicere); third conjugation^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ The Tironian notes have a perfect ''prōlixit''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|prō-|laciō|t2=to entice]].^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Conte 2010)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan reconstructs [[itc-pro|*lak-i-|t=to draw, pull]] for the verb stem; the simple verb is attested only in Paulus' abridgement of Festus and is probably a nonce form, while in the compounds the stem may simply have meant “to draw”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL) in the ''Curculio'', where love of wine lures a speaker here through the darkness: ''eius amor cupidam mē hūc prōlicit per tenebrās''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to lure forward or entice forth, used by poets and in post-Augustan prose.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pacuvius already used it with a personal object,^(Georges 1913) Ovid says that the pleasure of love must be drawn out by slow delay,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Tacitus uses it of luring others on to hope.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Statius uses it of the Aonian seer coaxing Laius forth,^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) This led to the sense “provoke a state of affairs”: Tacitus speaks of fearing that a riot might provoke bloodshed and arms.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) The glossaries explain it with [[promereor|alt=prōmerērī]].^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of being lured somewhere through the dark.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 220–130 BC – Pacuvius uses it in a fragment.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of drawing out pleasure.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of luring men to hope and of provoking violence.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|lure]] forward, [[m|en|entice]] forth, lead on.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To call forth; to [[m|en|provoke]], stir up (a state of affairs).^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[prōlectō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}