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Ubi idem et maximus et honestissimus amor est, aliquando praestat morte jungi, quam vita distrahi → Where indeed the greatest and most honourable love exists, it is much better to be joined by death, than separated by life.

Valerius Maximus, De Factis Dictisque
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English (LSJ)

   A urge, hasten on, πρᾶγμα Aeschin.3.67, cf. LXX Ex. 5.13:—Pass., of words, to be urgent or rapid, κατεσπεῦσθαι τὴν φράσιν D.H. Comp.20 (Upton for κατεσπάσθαι) κατεσπεῦσθαι (v.l. -εσπάσθαι) τὴν λέξιν Gal.16.548; τὰ κατεσπευσμένα Longin.19.2; ἡ ἁρμονία οὐ κ. Id.40.4.    2 agitate, dismay, τινα LXX Da.4.16(19).    II intr., make haste, hasten, ib.De.33.2.