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|lshtext=<b>festīno</b>: āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and<br /><b>I</b> a. [cf. Gr. [[θείνω]]; Lat. -[[fendo]] in [[defendo]], [[offendo]], -[[festus]] in [[manifestus]], etc., and [[fustis]], Corss. Ausspr. 2, 190; Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 255].<br /><b>I</b> Neutr., to [[hasten]], [[make]] [[haste]], [[hurry]], be [[quick]] ([[class]].; not in Caes.; syn.: [[propero]], [[celero]], [[maturo]]): 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. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. properare, p. 235 Müll.; ap. Non. 441, 22: [[propemodum]] [[quid]] [[illic]] festinet [[sentio]], Plaut. Trin. 3, 1, 14: [[aput]] nos [[eccillam]] festinat cum sorore [[uxor]] tua, id. Stich. 4, 1, 30: [[quid]] festinas? Ter. Eun. 4, 3, 8; cf.: [[quamquam]] festinas, non est [[mora]] longa, Hor. C. 1, 28, 35; Sall. Fragm. ap. [[Don]]. Ter. Eun. 4, 3, 8: ibi, Plaut. Stich. 5, 3, 4: plura scripsissem, [[nisi]] tui festinarent, Cic. Fam. 12, 22, 4; cf. id. Att. 6, 2 fin.: solent nautae festinare [[quaestus]] sui [[causa]], id. Fam. 16, 9, 4: [[esseda]] festinant, pilenta, petorrita, naves, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 192: in provinciam festinare, Quint. 6, 3, 39: ad portas, Sall. J. 69, 2; cf.: ad singulare Antonii [[factum]] festinat [[oratio]], Cic. Phil. 1, 1, 3: ad probationem, Quint. 4, 3, 8; cf. id. 4, 5, 10: [[quis]] te festinare jubet? Juv. 14, 212.—Prov.: festina [[lente]] (σπεῦδε βραδέως), Suet. Aug. 25.<br /><b>II</b> Transf., as v. a., to [[make]] [[haste]] [[with]] a [[thing]], to [[hasten]], [[hurry]], [[accelerate]], do [[speedily]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With an [[object]]-[[clause]] ([[class]].): ut migrare tanto opere festines, Cic. Fam. 7, 23 fin.: ne festinaret abire, Sall. J. 64, 4: ultum [[ire]] injurias, id. ib. 68, 1: finem imponere, Quint. 9, 4, 146: sequi, Curt. 6, 6, 25: componere lites, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 12: quae laedunt oculum, festinas demere, id. ib. 1, 2, 38: terris advertere proram, Verg. G. 4, 117: aram congerere arboribus, id. A. 6, 177; cf.: [[callidus]] id [[modo]] festinabat, Bocchi pacem imminuere, ne, etc., Sall. J. 81 fin.: universis [[prodesse]] festinet, Inscr. Orell. 775.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With acc. (not in Cic.): festivum festinant diem, [[hasten]] to [[celebrate]], Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 9, 401 (Trag. v. 434 ed. Vahl.): ni id festinaret, Sall. J. 77, 1: ad [[bellum]] cuncta, id. ib. 73, 1: soleas festinate (sc. [[dare]]), id. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 12, 425: festinare fugam, Verg. A. 4, 575: vias, Stat. Th. 2, 478: poenas, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 61: pyram, Sil. 8, 52: vestes, Stat. S. 2, 1, 128: [[caedes]], patibula, ignes, cruces, Tac. A. 14, 33: mortem in se, to [[bring]] on [[speedily]], id. ib. 4, 28: pyram, prepares in [[haste]], Sil. 8, 52.—In [[pass]].: [[quod]] [[animo]] cupienti [[nihil]] [[satis]] festinatur, Sall. J. 64 fin.: ea cuncta per idoneos ministros festinabantur, Tac. H. 2, 82: cum belli [[civilis]] praemia festinarentur, id. ib. 3, 37: nec virgines festinantur, are not married [[early]], id. G. 20: [[adoptio]] festinatur, id. A. 12, 25; 6, 50; id. H. 3, 37.—In [[part]]. perf., hastened, accelerated: festinata [[maturitas]], Quint. 6 praef. § 10; [[iter]], Ov. P. 4, 5, 8: [[missio]], Tac. A. 1, 52: [[casus]], id. ib. 6, 44: [[nuptiae]], Suet. Aug. 69: honores, i. e. obtained [[before]] the [[proper]] [[time]], Luc. 8, 24; Plin. [[Pan]]. 69, 5: festinatis annis [[raptus]], by an [[early]] [[death]], Mart. 7, 40, 7; cf.: festinatis lictorum manibus in carcerem [[raptus]], Tac. A. 6, 40: [[mors]] domini gladiis tam festinata, [[prematurely]] inflicted, Juv. 4, 96.—*<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With se, to [[make]] [[haste]], Gell. 14, 2, 9.—Hence,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; festīnans, antis, P. a., [[hasty]], in [[haste]]: [[ille]] [[properans]], [[festinans]], mandata vestra conficere [[cupiens]], Cic. Phil. 9, 3, 6: haec [[festinans]] scripsi in itinere [[atque]] agmine, id. Att. 6, 4 fin. —Adv.: festīnanter, [[hastily]], [[speedily]], [[quickly]] ([[class]].): [[improbe]], [[turbide]], [[festinanter]], [[rapide]] omnia videtis esse suscepta, Cic. Scaur. § 37: [[nimium]] [[festinanter]] [[dictum]], id. Fin. 5, 26, 77.—Comp.: compositius cuncta [[quam]] festinantius agerent, Tac. A. 15, 3: [[factum]] [[quid]], Gell. 10, 11, 8: publicatum, Suet. Aug. 29: germinant, Plin. 17, 11, 15, § 78.—Sup.: festinantissime, Aug. Ep. 250.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; festīnāto, adv., [[hastily]], [[hurriedly]] ([[post]]-Aug.): [[quam]] [[nihil]] [[praeparato]], [[nihil]] [[festinato]] fecisse videtur [[Milo]], Quint. 4, 2, 58; Suet. Claud. 16; Vulg. Gen. 44, 11 al.

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