(adjective) : festīnus, a, um (ante-class. form of the
* Acc. sing. festinem in the verse: nunc haec res me facit festinem, Titin. ap. Non. 482, 33; cf. Comic. Lat. ed. Rib. p. 127), festino, hasty, hastening, in haste, quick, speedy (poet.; syn.: celer, rapidus, velox, etc.): cursu festinus anhelo,Ov. M. 11, 347: veste tegens, tibi quam noctes festina diesque Urgebam,Verg. A. 9, 488: taedia vitae,early,Val. Fl. 6, 325; cf.: cruda festinaque virtus, Stat. Th. 9, 716: celeritas, Cod. Th. 16, 5, 53 al. (but in Enn. ap. Char. p. 251 P. the right read. is Vestina, v. Vahl. Enn. Ann. v. 280).
* With gen.: laudum festinus et audax Ingenii,Stat. S. 5, 3, 135: voti,id. Th. 6, 75.—Adv.: festīnē, hastily, Cassiod. Var. 3, 40 (so Codd. Cic. Att. 4, 14, 2, where edd. festive).

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