(adjective) : tŭmultŭārĭus, a, um, tumultus
* 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).
* 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.
* 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.