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Festinus

hasty

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Metamorphoses 5 · 0.94/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Thebais 4 · 0.64/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 2 · 0.28/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

festīnus — Lewis & Short

festīnus, a, um (ante-class. form of the

I acc. sing. festinem in the verse: nunc haec res me facit festinem, Titin. ap. Non. 482, 33; cf. Comic. Lat. ed. Rib. p. 127), adj. 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).—

(b) 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).

In the wild

festinus Statius, Thebais 10.686
festinus Claudian, Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.371
festinus Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 22.28
festinus Statius, Thebais 9.330
festinus Statius, Silvae 5.3.135
festinusque Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3.14.p5

6 of 22 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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