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540 PROCULEIUS. * PROCULUS.
honest enough to style himself the author of it. Antony was just expiring when Proculeius arrived,
Other versions are:-De Bello Pers. et Vandal. ex having previously told Cleopatra to trust ProcuVersione Raphaelis Volaterran., Rome, 1509, fol.; leius more than any other of the friends of Octaby Christopherus Persona, Rome, 1506, fol.; cum vian. The account of his interview with Cleopatra
Praefatione Beati Rhenani, Basel, 1531, fol.; cum is related at length by Plutarch, who calls him
Zosimo, ibid. 1576, fol.; cum Jornande et Agathia, Procleius (Plut. Ant. 77-79; Dion Cass. li. 11.)
Lyon, 1594, 8vo.; sub titulo De Gothorum Origine, It is of this Proculeius that Horace speaks (Carm.
Frankfort, 1606, fol.; by Hugo Grotius, in his ii. 2):Historia Gothor. Longobard. et Vandal., Amster- Vivet extento Proculeius aevo,
dam, 1655, 8vo.; and others. - Greek and Greek Notus in fratres animi paterni:"
and Latin: A portion of the Bellum Gothicum,
Graece et Latine, by Petrus Pithoeus, in his Codex and Porphyrio relates, in his commentary on this
Legum Wisigothorum, Paris, 1579, fol.; the 8 passage, that Proculeius divided his property with
books by David Hoeschel, Graece, together with his brothers Caepio (not Scipio as in some ediDe Aedificiis, Augsburg, 1676, fol.; Descriptio tions) and Murena, who had lost their property in
Ponti Euatni, ex Libr. I. de Bello Gothico, Graece the civil wars. It is also stated by Dion Cassius
et Latine, by Bonaventura Vulcanius, in his Scrip- (liv. 3), that Proculeius was a brother of the Mutores Rer. Gothicar., Leyden, 1597, 1617, 8vo. H. rena, who was condemned, in B. c. 22, on account
Holcroft published an English translation, London, of his conspiring against Augustus. The nature
1653, fol. There are also French, German, and of this relationship is, however, not clear. The
Italian translations. full name of this Murena was A. Terentius Varro
2. De Aedificiis. The editio princeps, by Joan. Murena, and Drumann conjectures that he was
Ilervagius, Graece, Basel, 1531,fol.; the same, Paris, the son of L. Licinius Murena, who was consul
1543, and ibid. 1537, 4to., with a Latin translation B. C. 62, and that he was adopted by A. Terentius
by Fr. Cranenveld, and notes of Th. Adamaeus; Varro. The same writer farther conjectures that
a Latin version by Armoldus Vesaliensis, together Proculeius was the son of C. Licinius Murena, the
with the eight books of the History and Zosimus, brother of the consul of B. c. 62, and that he was
Basel, 1576; fol.; by David Hoeschel, Graece, ad adopted by some one of the name of Proculeius.
calcem " Historiarum," Augsburg, 1607, fol. In that case Proculeius would have been the cousin
3. Historia Arcana. Graece et Latine, cum of Murena. We know that it was common among
Notis N. Alemanni, Lyon, 1623, fol.; idem, Co- the Romans to call cousins by the name of brothers
logne, 1669, fol.; a Joan. Eichelio, Helmstaidt, (frater patruelis and frater). (Drumann, Geschichte
1654, 4to.; Excerpta, by Hugo Grotius, in his Roms, vol. iv. pp. 193, 194.)
work quoted above. The famous Christian Tho- The great intimacy of Proculeius with Augustus
masius intended to make a new edition, but it did is attested by many writers. (Dion Cass. 1. c.;
not appear. There is an English translation, 1674, Tac. Ann. iv. 40; Plin. H. N. vii. 45. s. 46,
8vo.; a German, by Paul Reinhard, Erlangen xxxvi. 25. s. 59.) Dion Cassius (I. c.) speaks of
and Leipzig, 1753, 8vo.; and there are French him and Maecenas as the principal friends of the
and Italian versions. emperor, and they both interceded, but to no pur4. Orationes, Basel, 1538, 8vo. pose, for the life of their relation, Murena. We
There are two collections of the Works of Pro- also learn from Tacitus (I. c.), that he was one of
copius, with Latin versions, notes, &c.; the first by the Romans to whom Augustus had thought of
Claude Maltret, Paris, 2 vols. fol. 1662, 1663, giving his daughter Julia in marriage. Proculeius
which is not very carefully edited, and was badly put an end to his own life by taking gypsum, when
reprinted at Venice, ]729, fol.; and the second in suffering from a disease in the stomach. (Plin.
the Bonn Collection of the Byzantines, by Dindorf, H. N. xxxvi. 25. s. 59.)
Bonn, 3 vols. 8vo., 1833-1838: it contains Ale- The following coin, which has C. PROCULEL L. F.
manni's valuable notes on the Historia Arcana, an on the reverse, may have been struck by the aboveindex, and a text revised with great care. (Fabric. mentioned Proculeius. It is uncertain to whom
Biblioth. Grace. vol. vii. p. 553, &c.; Cave, Hist. the head on the obverse refers; on the reverse we
Lit. vol. i. p. 510; Hanckius, Script. Byzant.; La see a bipennis. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 289.)
Mothe de Vayer, Jugemens sur les Historiens Grecs,
in the 8th vol. of his Oeuvres.) [W. P.]
PROCRIS (Ipo'KpIs), a daughter of Erechtheus
in Athens, was married to Cephalus (Apollod. iii.
15. ~ 2; comp. CEPHALUS). A second Procris
was a daughter of Thespius. (Apollod. ii. 7. ~ l8.) [L. S.]
PROCRUSTES (1-pocpou'i7rs), that is, "the
Stretcher," is a surname of the famous robber Po- COIN OF C. PROCULEIUS.
lypemon or Damastes. He used to force all the
strangers that fell into his hands into a bed which PRO'CULUS, a Roman cognomen, was oriwas either too small or too large, and in which he ginally a praenornen, like Postumus and Agrippa.
had their limbs stretched by force until they died. The Roman grammarians connected it with procul,
He was slain by Theseus, on the Cephissus in and explain it in two different ways, as meaning
Attica; the bed of Procrustes is used proverbially either a person born when his father was at a
even at the present day. (Plut. Tlies. 1 *; Paus. distance from his native country, or a person born
i. 38. ~ 5; Ov. Met. vii. 438.) [L. S.] of parents advanced in age. (Paul. Diac. ex Fest.
C. PROCULEIUS, a Roman eques, one of the p. 225, ed. Miiller.)
friends of Octavian, was sent by the latter, after PRO'CULUS, the wealthy descendant of a race
the victory at Actium, to Antony and Cleopatra. of robber chiefs, was a native of Albium Ingaunum,