nobles, chiefs, leading men
Latin word, found 111 times in the texts on Socratos.
Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.101: … consecraverunt; velut ibes maximam vim serpentium conficiunt, cum sint aves excelsae cruribus rigidis corneo proceroque rostro; avertunt pestem ab Aegypto, cum volucris anguis ex vastitate Libyae vento Africo invectas interfic …
Cicero, Letters to his Friends 13.15.1: … norificentissime invitarer, coniungerem; ἀλλ’ ἐμὸν οὔ ποτε θυμὸν ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ἔπειθεν. audiebam enim nostros proceres clamitantis: ἄλκιμος ἔσσ’, ἵνα τίς σε καὶ ὀψιγόνων ἐὺ εἴπῃ. ὣς φάτο, τὸν δ’ ἄχεος νεφέλη ἐκάλυψε μέλαινα.
Vergil, Eclogues 6.63: corticis, atque solo proceras erigit alnos.
All forms of proceres