I.quick, speedy, hastening (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose): properam pro celeri ac strenuā dixisse antiquos, testimonio est Cato, Fest. p. 253 Müll.: “properi aurigae,” Verg. A. 12, 85: “Telamon,” Ov. M. 7, 647: “pede,” Cat. 62, 34: “gressus,” Val. Fl. 4, 176: “spe ac juventā properus,” Tac. H. 4, 68: “agmen,” id. ib. 4, 79: “sibi quisque properus,” each one hastening for himself, Tac. A. 1, 65.—With gen. (Tacitean): “Agrippina oblatae occasionis propera,” quickly seizing the proffered occasion, Tac. A. 12, 66: “irae,” id. ib. 11, 26: “vindictae,” id. ib. 14, 7.—With inf. (Tacitean): “quoquo facinore properus clarescere,” Tac. A. 4, 52.—Hence, adv., in two forms.
A. prŏpĕrē , hastily, in haste, quickly, speedily: ut propere tonuit! Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 10: “propere sequere me,” id. Aul. 2, 2, 86; Sall. J. 91, 4: “egredere,” Nep. Epam. 4, 3: “propere Cumas se recepit,” Liv. 23, 36: “naves onerare,” Sall. J. 86, 1; cf. Hor. C. 3, 19, 9: “propere propero,” Plaut. Aul. 2, 8, 23: “propere, cito introite, et cito deproperate,” id. Cas. 3, 6, 17: “propere, celeriter eloquere,” id. Rud. 5, 2, 36: “argentum propere propera vomere,” id. Curc. 5, 3, 10; cf. id. Stich. 2, 2, 13: “fac te propere celerem,” id. Trin. 4, 3, 1.—
B. prŏpĕrĭter , hastily, quickly (ante- and post-class.): classem in altum properiter deducere, Pac. ap. Non. 155, 6: navem in fugam tradunt, Att. ap. Non. 155. 8; App. M. 6, p. 184, 8; 7, p. 198, 33; Aus. Parent. 27.
