The corpus record

τᾰχύνω

tachuno

make quickly

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Where it lives

Rhesus 2 · 3.72/10k
Ajax 2 · 2.54/10k
Ecclesiastes 1 · 2.21/10k
Psalmi Salomonis 1 · 2.1/10k
Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Regnorum II 3 · 1.85/10k
On the Art of Horsemanship 1 · 1.44/10k
Machabaeorum I 2 · 1.15/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
Genesis 3 · 1/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

make quickly, hastens, quickly written

make quickly, κοίλην κάπετον χερσὶ ταχύνατε S. Aj. 1404 (anap.); ὡς δύνασαι . . ταχύνας σπεῦσον κοίλην κάπετον ib. 1164 (anap.); τάδε τοί με σπερχόμενος ταχύνει such are the words by which he urging hastens me, i.e. urges me to hasten, E. Alc. 257 (lyr.):— Pass., σελὶς ταχυνομένη quickly written, AP 6.227 (Crin.).

II to be quick, make haste, hurry

intr., to be quick, make haste, hurry, A. Pers. 692, Ch. 660, S. OT 861, OC 219 (lyr.), Ar. Ec. 582: in Prose, X. Cyr. 8.5.15: c. gen., τοῦ ποιῆσαι LXX Ge. 18.7.

2 to be early

to be early, ταχύνουσαν ἢ βραδύνουσαν ἀκμὴν προδιαγνῶναι Gal. 19.201.

In the wild

τάχυνε · tachyne Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 660–662
τάχυνε · tachyne Aeschylus, Persians 692
τάχυνʼ · tachynʼ Euripides, Rhesus (DIORISIS sentence 380)
ταχύνεις · tachyneis Euripides, Rhesus (DIORISIS sentence 46)
ταχύνεσθαί · tachynesthai Plotinus, Enneads 4.5 (DIORISIS sentence 3136)
ταχυνάτω · tachynatō Septuaginta, Ecclesiastes 5

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Where it came from

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