(adj.adv.) : vēlox, ōcis, adj.akin to volare; cf. veles
* Swift, quick, fleet, rapid, speedy (class.; syn.: celer, pernix, praepes).
* 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.
* 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.