Swift: quicke. Saltatu velox. Plin. Light in leaping. Ferro velox. Stat. Nimble with hi weapon: that can handle his weapon nimbly. Ad facinus velox. Clau. Ad præmia velox. Ouid. Aeui velocis memor. Senec. Mindful of age that lightlye passeth away. Alæ veloces. Claud. Animus velox. Hor. Aunus velox. Stat. The yeare quithly passing. Cerui veloces. Vir. Horæ veloces. Ouid. Crura velocia Ouid. laculum velox. Vir. Equi veloces. Ouid. Ingenium velox. Ouid. A subtile and quicke wit. Ingenium velox ac mobile. Quint. Membra velocia. Sil. Oculo veloci percurrere aliquid. Ho. Lightly to ouerreade, or ouerlooke. Pila velox. Hor. Victoria velox, Hor. Procella velox. Hor. Nihil est annis velocius. Ouid.

I. Lit.: juvenes, Liv. 26, 4, 4: pedites velocissimi ac fortissimi, Caes. B. G. 1, 48: velocissimus quisque, Quint. 2, 3, 7: Breuni, Hor. C. 4, 14, 11: cervi, Verg. A. 5, 253: catuli, id. G. 3, 405: Pristis, id. A. 5, 116: pes, Ov. M. 1, 551: flamma, Lucr. 6, 688: jaculum, Verg. G. 2, 530: procella, Hor. C. 3, 27, 63: arbores, rapidly growing, Plin. 17, 13, 20, 95: toxicum, quickly working, Hor. Epod. 17, 61; so, genus herbae ad mortem, etiam opio velocius, Plin. 21, 31, 105, 180: horae, Ov. M. 2, 118: anni, Mart. 8, 8, 1: navigatio, Quint. 12, 2, 24: celeritas, Plin. 10, 24, 35, 73: Victoria, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 64: moenia (thermae), quickly built, Mart. Spect. 2, 7.—Poet., for the adv.: ille velox ... Desilit in latices, Ov. M. 4, 352; Hor. C. 4, 12, 22; Luc. 9, 829.—With inf.: nec jam hic absistere velox, Stat. Th. 6, 797.—With ad and acc.: piger ad poenas princeps, ad praemia velox, Ov. P. 1, 2, 123.—

II. Trop.: nihil est animo velocius, Cic. Tusc. 1, 19, 43: ingenio veloci ac mobili, Quint. 6, 4, 8: natura humani ingenii agilis ac velox, id. 1, 12, 2: velox ingenio, Tac. Agr. 13: animus, Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 13: acutior atque velocior in urbanitate brevitas, Quint. 6, 3, 45; cf.: decurrere materiam stilo quam velocissimo, id. 10, 3, 17: velocior (in conjectando), Phaedr. 3, 3, 1.—Adv.: vēlōcĭter, swiftly, quickly, speedily, Ov. M. 4, 509; 11, 586; Quint. 1, 1, 28; 2, 4, 28; 8, 3, 81; Plin. 16, 44, 90, 241.—Comp., Cic. Rep. 6, 26, 29. —Sup., Cic. Univ. 9; Caes. B. G. 5, 35; Suet. Tit. 3.