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|lshtext=<b>rĕpentīnus</b>: a, um, adj. [[repens]],<br /><b>I</b> [[sudden]], [[hasty]], unlooked for, [[unexpected]] (freq. and [[class]].): [[adventus]] hostium (opp. [[exspectatus]]), Cic. Rep. 2, 3, 6; so (opp. meditata et praeparata) id. Off. 1, 8, 27: [[unde]] [[iste]] [[amor]] tam [[improvisus]] ac tam [[repentinus]]? id. Agr. 2, 22, 60: sentit omnia repentina et nec opinata esse graviora, id. Tusc. 3, 19, 45; cf.: [[repentinus]] inopinatusque [[finis]] vitae, Suet. Caes. 87 ([[shortly]] [[before]], subita celerisque [[mors]]): vis repentina et inexspectata, Cic. de Or. 2, 55, 225: [[consilium]] ([[with]] temerarium), id. Inv. 2, 9, 28: [[exercitus]] ([[with]] [[tumultuarius]]), Liv. 41, 10; cf. [[cohors]], id. 41, 1: [[venenum]] ([[with]] [[praeceps]]), Tac. A. 12, 66: [[periculum]], Caes. B. G. 3, 3: [[bonum]], Ter. And. 5, 4, 35: [[mors]], Cic. Clu. 62, 173; id. Div. 2, 35, 74: [[edictum]], id. Verr. 2, 3, 14, § 36: [[motus]] Galliae, Caes. B. G. 5, 22: [[tumultus]] ac [[defectio]], id. ib. 5, 26; cf. [[tumultus]], Ov. M. 5, 5: conjuratio Gallorum, Caes. B. G. 5, 27 et saep.: ignoti homines et repentini, [[upstart]], Cic. Brut. 69, 242; cf.: repentina [[atque]] ex virtute [[nobilitas]], Liv. 1, 34: [[consilium]], Nep. Paus. 4, 5.— De [[repentino]], adverb., [[suddenly]], App. Flor. p. 353; id. de Deo Socr. p. 365, 14.— Comp.: [[nimbus]] [[quanto]] repentinior est, tanto vehementior, App. Mund. p. 61, 20 (al. [[repentinus]]). — Adv. ([[rare]] for [[repente]]): rĕpen-tīnō, [[suddenly]], [[unexpectedly]], Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 37; Afran. ap. [[Charis]]. p. 193 P.; Cic. Quint. 4, 14; Caes. B. G. 2, 33.