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Latin
Etymology
Comparative of prope, as prope + -ius.
Adverb
propius
- comparative degree of prope (“nearly, more nearly, nearer, closer, almost”)
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.526:
- “Parce piō generī, et propius rēs aspice nostrās.”
- “Spare a pious race, and look more closely at our plight.”
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References
- “propius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “propius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- propius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be not far away: prope (propius, proxime) abesse
- to advance nearer to the city: propius accedere ad urbem or urbem
- to approach the gods: propius ad deos accedere (Mil. 22. 59)