Propero, próperas, pen. cor, properâre. A propèfit. Ter. To go quickly or hastily: to say or doe quickly: to make hast: to make speede: to go apace: to hie quickly.Festinare & properare, Vide FSTINO. Maturatè properare.Plaut.Pergere & properare Romam.Cic.In campum properare.Cic.In CyprÛ properare. Te. To make speed to go into Cyprus.Inde ventis, temilque in patriam omni festinatione properaui.Cic.Properare ad exitum. Brutus. Ad metam vnam properare.Ouid.Sedem properamus ad vnam.Ouid.Propera ocyus.Plaut.Quo properas? Plaut.Whether goest thou so fast? Properare, cum infinitiuo: Propera bat adire, Ouid.Rem properauit deducere in iudicium.Cic.Properare hominem inuenire. Ter. Propera ire in vrbem.Plaut.Properare proficisei. Cæs. To make haste to departe on his iourney.Properare propero domum.Plaut.I make haste to hye mee home.Quin huc ad vos venire propero? Cic. Quicquid agit, properat omnia.Plaut.He doth all in hast whatsoeuer he doth.Deditionem properare. Tac. To make hast to yeeld.Inoffensum iter properauerat. Tac. Laborem properare. Prop. Mortem properare. Tac. Pecuniam indigno hæredi properare. Hora. Greedily to gather money for an vnworthy heyre. Properantur, passiuè.Plin. iun. Hinc delubra occulta celeritate properantur. Temples with haste priuily are buil ded vp.Lanæ properabantur. Hor. Woull hastily was made ready.Amores teneri properentur. Ou. Let tender louwith speed be descriued or written on.
prŏpĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [properus]. I.Act., to hasten, quicken, accelerate; to prepare, make, or do with haste (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose): alia quae incepto usui forent properare, Sall. J. 37, 4: itineris properandi causā, id. ib. 105, 2: properato itinere, id. ib. 112, 2: vascula intus pure propera, Plaut. Aul. 2, 3, 3: obsonia, id. Cas. 2, 8, 57: fulmina, Verg. G. 4, 171: pecuniam heredi, Hor. C. 3, 24, 62: mortem, Tib. 4, 1, 205; Verg. A. 9, 401: coeptum iter, Tac. H. 3, 40: deditionem, id. A. 2, 22: caedem, id. ib. 11, 37: naves, id. ib. 2, 6: hoc studium, Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 28.—In pass.: vellera properabantur, Hor. Epod. 12, 21: teneri properentur amores, Dum vacat, let them be sung hastily or briefly, Ov. Am. 3, 1, 69: properatur amor, id. M. 5, 396: hinc porticus, inde delubra properantur, Plin. Pan. 51, 3.—II.Neutr., to make haste, to hasten, be quick (class.): aliud est properare, aliud festinare. Qui unum quid mature transigit, is properat: qui multa simul incipit neque perficit, is festinat, Cato ap. Gell. 16, 14, 2; id. ap. Fest. p. 234 Müll.; id. ap. Non. 441, 22: propera, fer pedem, Plaut. Men. 3, 3, 30: properatin' ocius?id. Curc. 2, 2, 33: simulabat sese negotii causā properare, Sall. J. 76, 1; 58, 6: in Italiam, Caes. B. G. 2, 35; id. B. C. 2, 20: ad praedam, ad gloriam, id. ib. 2, 39: ad gaudia, Hor. C. 4, 12, 21: Romam, Cic. Mil. 19, 49: in patriam, id. Fam. 12, 25: in fata, Luc. 8, 658: sacris, for a sacris, Ov. M. 6, 201; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 58; but sometimes with collat. notion of excessive haste: properantibus Blaesus advenit, increpabatque, etc. (cf. the context), Tac. A. 1, 18; 13, 17.— With sup.: ultro licentiam in vos auctum, atque adjutum properatis, Sall. Or. Licin. ad Pleb. (H. 3, 61, 16 Dietsch).—With inf.: argentum propere propera vomere, Plaut. Curc. 5, 3, 10: redire in patriam, Cic. Prov. Cons. 14, 35: quin huc ad vos venire propero?id. Rep. 6, 15, 15: signa inferre, atque evadere oppido, Sall. J. 56, 5: pervenire, Caes. B. G. 2, 11: aliquem amando Perdere, Hor. C. 1, 8, 2.—With object-clause: se quisque hostem ferire properabat, Sall. C. 7, 6; Amm. 25, 7.—Impers. pass.: properatum vehementer, cum, etc., Cic. Sull. 19, 54; Verg. A. 4, 416.—Transf., of inanimate subjects, with inf. pass.: mala decerpi properantia, Plin. 15, 14, 15, 52.—Hence, A. prŏpĕrans, antis, P. a., hastening, hasty, rapid, speedy (class.): ille properans, festinans, Cic. Phil. 9, 3, 6: haec properantes scripsimus,
in haste
, id. Att. 4, 4, a.—Comp.: rotam solito properantior urget, Claud. in Ruf. 2, 337.—Hence, adv.: prŏpĕran-ter, hastily, speedily, quickly (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf.: propere, cito, festinanter, celeriter, etc.), Lucr. 5, 300: properanter accepit codicillos, Tac. A. 16, 24.—Comp.: beneficia properantius, quam aes mutuum, reddere, Sall. J. 96, 2; 8, 2: ire, Ov. F. 4, 673.—Sup.: properantissime aliquid afferre, Cod. Th. 11, 30, 8.—B. prŏpĕrātus, a, um, P. a., hurried, accelerated, rapid, quick, speedy (mostly poet.): tabellae, Ov. M. 9, 586: mors, id. Tr. 3, 3, 34: gloria rerum, id. M. 15, 748: meta curribus, i. e.
rapidly approached
, Mart. 10, 50, 7: naves, Tac. A. 2, 6: tela, id. ib. 2, 80.—Comp.: properatius tempus, Sol. 26.—Absol.: properato opus est, there is need of haste: accurato et properato opus est, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 210: erat nihil, cur properato opus esset, Cic. Mil. 19, 49.—Hence, adv.: prŏpĕrā-tō, quickly, speedily (Tac.): properato ad mortem agitur, Tac. A. 13, 1.
prŏpĕrus, a, um, adj. [root par-, to make; whence parare, parĕre], quick, speedy, hastening (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose): properam pro celeri ac strenuā dixisse antiquos, testimonio est Cato, Fest. p. 253 Müll.: properi aurigae, Verg. A. 12, 85: Telamon, Ov. M. 7, 647: pede, Cat. 62, 34: gressus, Val. Fl. 4, 176: spe ac juventā properus, Tac. H. 4, 68: agmen, id. ib. 4, 79: sibi quisque properus,
each one hastening for himself
, Tac. A. 1, 65.—With gen. (Tacitean): Agrippina oblatae occasionis propera,
quickly seizing the proffered occasion
, Tac. A. 12, 66: irae, id. ib. 11, 26: vindictae, id. ib. 14, 7.—With inf. (Tacitean): quoquo facinore properus clarescere, Tac. A. 4, 52.—Hence, adv., in two forms. A. prŏpĕrē, hastily, in haste, quickly, speedily: ut propere tonuit! Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 10: propere sequere me, id. Aul. 2, 2, 86; Sall. J. 91, 4: egredere, Nep. Epam. 4, 3: propere Cumas se recepit, Liv. 23, 36: naves onerare, Sall. J. 86, 1; cf. Hor. C. 3, 19, 9: propere propero, Plaut. Aul. 2, 8, 23: propere, cito introite, et cito deproperate, id. Cas. 3, 6, 17: propere, celeriter eloquere, id. Rud. 5, 2, 36: argentum propere propera vomere, id. Curc. 5, 3, 10; cf. id. Stich. 2, 2, 13: fac te propere celerem, id. Trin. 4, 3, 1.—B. prŏpĕrĭter, hastily, quickly (ante- and post-class.): classem in altum properiter deducere, Pac. ap. Non. 155, 6: navem in fugam tradunt, Att. ap. Non. 155. 8; App. M. 6, p. 184, 8; 7, p. 198, 33; Aus. Parent. 27.