depropero

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

dē-prŏpĕro, āre, v. n. and a.

I Neutr., to make great haste, to hasten : cito introite, et cito deproperate, Plaut. Cas. 3, 6, 17.—

II Act., to hasten or accelerate greatly, to prepare hastily (very rare): coronas, * Hor. Od. 2, 7, 24: miserabile humandi munus, Sil. 2, 265.—With inf. as object: sacruficare, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 108.

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