I.swift, quick, fleet, rapid, speedy (class.; syn.: celer, pernix, praepes).
I. Lit.: “juvenes,” Liv. 26, 4, 4: “pedites velocissimi ac fortissimi,” Caes. B. G. 1, 48: “velocissimus quisque,” Quint. 2, 3, 7: “Breuni,” Hor. C. 4, 14, 11: “cervi,” Verg. A. 5, 253: “catuli,” id. G. 3, 405: “Pristis,” id. A. 5, 116: “pes,” Ov. M. 1, 551: “flamma,” Lucr. 6, 688: “jaculum,” Verg. G. 2, 530: “procella,” Hor. C. 3, 27, 63: “arbores,” rapidly growing, Plin. 17, 13, 20, § 95: “toxicum,” quickly working, Hor. Epod. 17, 61; so, “genus herbae ad mortem, etiam opio velocius,” Plin. 21, 31, 105, § 180: “horae,” Ov. M. 2, 118: “anni,” Mart. 8, 8, 1: “navigatio,” Quint. 12, 2, 24: “celeritas,” Plin. 10, 24, 35, § 73: “Victoria,” Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 64: “moenia (thermae),” quickly built, Mart. Spect. 2, 7.—Poet., for the adv.: “ille velox ... Desilit in latices,” Ov. M. 4, 352; Hor. C. 4, 12, 22; Luc. 9, 829.—With inf.: “nec jam hic absistere velox,” Stat. Th. 6, 797.—With ad and acc.: “piger ad poenas princeps, ad praemia velox,” Ov. P. 1, 2, 123.—
II. Trop.: “nihil est animo velocius,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 19, 43: “ingenio veloci ac mobili,” Quint. 6, 4, 8: “natura humani ingenii agilis ac velox,” id. 1, 12, 2: “velox ingenio,” Tac. Agr. 13: “animus,” Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 13: “acutior atque velocior in urbanitate brevitas,” Quint. 6, 3, 45; cf.: “decurrere materiam stilo quam velocissimo,” id. 10, 3, 17: “velocior (in conjectando),” Phaedr. 3, 3, 1.—Adv.: vēlōcĭter , swiftly, quickly, speedily, Ov. M. 4, 509; 11, 586; Quint. 1, 1, 28; 2, 4, 28; 8, 3, 81; Plin. 16, 44, 90, § 241.—Comp., Cic. Rep. 6, 26, 29. —Sup., Cic. Univ. 9; Caes. B. G. 5, 35; Suet. Tit. 3.
