Célero, céleras, pen. cor. celerâre. Cic.To doe a thing quickly: to haste.Casum celerare. Lucret. To fall a pace.Fugam celerare.Virg.To make speede to flie.Gradum celerare. Sil. To goe a pace.Iter incœptum celerare, Vir.To make speede on his iourneyQum maximis itineribus celerare.Tacit.Opem celerare.Val. Flac.To make speede to helpe.Viam celerans.Virg.Speeding on his iourney.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
cĕlĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [id.] (mostly poet., or in post-Aug. prose). I.Act., to quicken, hasten, accelerate; syn.: festinare, properare): casus, Lucr. 2, 231: fugam in silvas, Verg. A. 9, 378: gradum, id. ib. 4, 641: iter inceptum, id. ib. 8, 90: viam, id. ib. 5, 609: gressum, Sil. 1, 574: vestigia, id. 7, 720: opem, Val. Fl. 3, 251: haec celerans, hastening, executing this (message), Verg. A. 1, 656; cf.: imperium alicujus,
to execute quickly
, Val. Fl. 4, 80: obpugnationem, Tac. A. 12, 46.—In pass.: itineribus celeratis, Amm. 31, 11, 3: celerandae victoriae intentior, Tac. A. 2, 5.—II.Neutr., to hasten, make haste, be quick (cf. accelero and propero): circum celerantibus auris, Lucr. 1, 388; Cat. 63, 26; Sil. 12, 64; Tac. A. 12, 64; id. H. 4, 24; Eutr. 4, 20 (but not Cic. Univ. 10; v. Orell. N. cr.).