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1 celeritās
celeritās ātis, f [celer], swiftness, quickness, speed, celerity: horum (equitum), Cs.: reditūs eius: belli celeritatem morari: in re gerundā: in castris capiendis, Cs.: veneni, the quick effect: incredibili celeritate fama perfertur, Cs.: celeritate uti, N.: celeritate opus est: ne suscipiamus nimias celeritates: animorum: calliditas et celeritas ingeni, quickness of device, N.: orationis: dicendi.* * *speed, quickness, rapidity; speed of action, dispatch; haste; early date -
2 celeritas
cĕlĕrĭtas, ātis, f. [celer], swiftness, quickness, speed, celerity (in good prose; syn.: velocitas, pernicitas;2.opp. tarditas): velocitas corporis celeritas appellatur, quae eadem ingenii laus habetur, etc.,
Cic. Tusc. 4, 13, 31:celeritas et vis equorum,
id. Div. 2, 70, 144; cf.equitum,
Caes. B. G. 1, 48 fin.:navis,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 88:pedum,
id. Ac. 1, 5, 19:in capiendis castris,
Caes. B. G. 7, 46:veneni,
the quick effect, Cic. Cael. 24, 60:incredibili celeritate de victoriā Caesaris fama perfertur,
Caes. B. G. 5, 53:celeritati studere,
id. B. C. 3, 79:Favonio Scipionis celeritas salutem attulit,
id. ib. 3, 36 fin.:maximum bonum in celeritate putabat,
Sall. C. 43, 4:celeritate uti,
to employ speed, Nep. Ages. 2, 2; 4, 4.—In plur. absol.: cavendum est ne in festinationibus suscipiamus nimias celeritates, Cic. Off. 1, 36, 131.—Of intellectual and abstract objects:animorum,
Cic. Sen. 21, 78: inge nii, v. supra; cf.:calliditas et celeritas ingenii,
quickness of device, Nep. Eum. 1, 3:cogitationis,
Quint. 10, 3, 19:consilii,
Nep. Ages. 6, 2:orationis,
Cic. Or. 16, 53; Quint. 11, 3, 111:dicendi,
Cic. Fl. 20, 48:syllabarum,
id. Or. 57, 191; Quint. 9, 4, 91; 9, 4, 88; 9, 4, 140; 11, 3, 107.
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