I.of or belonging to bustle, hurry, or tumult; in milit. lang., of troops brought hurriedly together, raised hastily or suddenly (not ante-Aug., but esp. freq. in Livy).
I. Lit.: “tumultuario exercitu raptim ducto,” Liv. 5, 37, 7; so, “milites,” id. 35, 2, 7; 35, 23, 8; “Auct. B. Alex. 34, 5: manus,” Curt. 4, 16, 24: “militia,” Gell. 16, 10, 13.—
II. Transf., that is done or happens in a hurry, hurried, hasty, sudden, confused, irregular, disorderly, tumultuary: “pugna,” Liv. 21, 8, 7: “opus,” id. 6, 29, 4: “ex opere tumultuario suspicari,” Quint. 7, 3, 34: “rogus,” Suet. Calig. 59: “repentinā et quasi tumultuariā doctrinā praeditus,” Gell. 11, 7, 3: “tumultuariae et inconditae exercitationes linguae,” id. 6, 16, 1: “carmen,” i. e. unpremeditated, improvised, Sid. Ep. 2, 10.—Adv.: tŭmultŭārĭē , tumultuously, hastily, hurriedly: “his raptim ac tumultuarie actis,” Amm. 24, 2, 18; Aur. Vict. Caes. 40; 17; Spart. Carac. 6.