I.too quick or hasty, over-hasty, sudden, precipitate (class.): “praepropera festinatio,” Cic. Fam. 7, 8, 1: “prensatio,” id. Att. 1, 1, 1: “celeritas,” Liv. 31, 42: “ingenium,” rash, id. 22, 41: “nisus,” Sil. 15, 757: “amor,” Val. Max. 6, 3, 6.— Hence, adv.: praeprŏpĕrē , very quickly, very hastily, with over-haste (rare; “not in Cic. or Cæs.): peri praepropere,” Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 10 (v. Ritschl ad h. l.): “festinans praepropere,” Liv. 37, 23, 10: “raptim omnia praepropere agendo,” id. 22, 19, 10; Quint. 12, 6, 2; Suet. Oth. 8.
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