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in-tempestīvus , a, um, adj.,
I.untimely, unseasonable, inopportune, inconvenient.
I. Lit.: “postes intempestivos excisos credo,Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 141: “imbres,Lucr. 2, 873; 929; 6, 1101: “amicitia numquam intempestiva est,Cic. Lael. 6: “epistula,id. Att. 4, 14: “cupido,Ov. M. 10, 689: “intempestivā turbantes festa Minervā,” i. e. by their unseasonable spinning, id. ib. 4, 33: “immodica et intempestiva libido,Vell. 2, 68, 4: “quid hoc joco intempestivius,Val. Max. 7, 8, 9: “gula,gratified at unseasonable times, Suet. Vit. 13: “intempestivo partu extracto,premature, Amm. 23, 2, 17.—
II. Transf., that acts or does a thing unseasonably: “anseres continuo clamore intempestivi,Plin. 18, 35, 87, § 363.— Adv. in two forms.
2. Form intempestīvīter , unseasonably: “dicere,Gell. 4, 20 in lemm.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (16):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 11.16
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 4.14
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 10.689
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.33
    • Plautus, Mostellaria, 3.2
    • Tacitus, Annales, 2.23
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.873
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.929
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.1101
    • Suetonius, Vitellius, 13
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 45, 21
    • Cicero, De Amicitia, 6
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 1.25
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 4.20
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 4.11
    • Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 7.8.9
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