(adj.adv.) : prŏpĕrus, a, um, adj.root par-, to make; whence parare, parĕre
* Quick, speedy, hastening (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose): properam pro celeri ac strenuā dixisse antiquos, testimonio est Cato, Fest. p. 253 Müll.: properi aurigae,Verg. A. 12, 85: Telamon,Ov. M. 7, 647: pede,Cat. 62, 34: gressus,Val. Fl. 4, 176: spe ac juventā properus,Tac. H. 4, 68: agmen,id. ib. 4, 79: sibi quisque properus,each one hastening for himself,Tac. A. 1, 65.—With gen. (Tacitean): Agrippina oblatae occasionis propera,quickly seizing the proffered occasion,Tac. A. 12, 66: irae,id. ib. 11, 26: vindictae,id. ib. 14, 7.—With inf. (Tacitean): quoquo facinore properus clarescere,Tac. A. 4, 52.—Hence, adv., in two forms.
* Prŏpĕrē, hastily, in haste, quickly, speedily: ut propere tonuit! Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 10: propere sequere me,id. Aul. 2, 2, 86; Sall. J. 91, 4: egredere,Nep. Epam. 4, 3: propere Cumas se recepit,Liv. 23, 36: naves onerare,Sall. J. 86, 1; cf. Hor. C. 3, 19, 9: propere propero,Plaut. Aul. 2, 8, 23: propere, cito introite, et cito deproperate,id. Cas. 3, 6, 17: propere, celeriter eloquere,id. Rud. 5, 2, 36: argentum propere propera vomere,id. Curc. 5, 3, 10; cf. id. Stich. 2, 2, 13: fac te propere celerem,id. Trin. 4, 3, 1.
* Prŏpĕrĭter, hastily, quickly (ante- and post-class.): classem in altum properiter deducere, Pac. ap. Non. 155, 6: navem in fugam tradunt, Att. ap. Non. 155. 8; App. M. 6, p. 184, 8; 7, p. 198, 33; Aus. Parent. 27.

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