accelera
Dictionary entries
- Entry →accelero, accelerare, acceleravi, acceleratus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
speed up, quicken, hurry; make haste, act quickly, hasten; accelerate;
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...suspicareris ac fugientium premere vestigia. Fit hoc, premeris: accelera et evade, perduc te in tutum et subinde considera..."
Liber Decimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...rape mente deos, rape nobile fatum. i, precor, accelera, ne proximus occupet Haemon.' sic ait, et magna cunctantis..."Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...honestum. 'non lacrimis hoc tempus' ait Saturnia Iuno: 'accelera et fratrem, si quis modus, eripe morti..."