I. Act., to hasten, quicken, accelerate; to prepare, make, or do with haste (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose): “alia quae incepto usui forent properare,” Sall. J. 37, 4: “itineris properandi causā,” id. ib. 105, 2: “properato itinere,” id. ib. 112, 2: “vascula intus pure propera,” Plaut. Aul. 2, 3, 3: “obsonia,” id. Cas. 2, 8, 57: “fulmina,” Verg. G. 4, 171: “pecuniam heredi,” Hor. C. 3, 24, 62: “mortem,” Tib. 4, 1, 205; Verg. A. 9, 401: “coeptum iter,” Tac. H. 3, 40: “deditionem,” id. A. 2, 22: “caedem,” id. ib. 11, 37: “naves,” id. ib. 2, 6: “hoc studium,” Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 28.—In pass.: “vellera properabantur,” Hor. Epod. 12, 21: teneri properentur amores, Dum vacat, let them be sung hastily or briefly, Ov. Am. 3, 1, 69: “properatur amor,” id. M. 5, 396: “hinc porticus, inde delubra properantur,” Plin. Pan. 51, 3.—
II. Neutr., to make haste, to hasten, be quick (class.): aliud est properare, aliud festinare. Qui unum quid mature transigit, is properat: qui multa simul incipit neque perficit, is festinat, Cato ap. Gell. 16, 14, 2; id. ap. Fest. p. 234 Müll.; id. ap. Non. 441, 22: “propera, fer pedem,” Plaut. Men. 3, 3, 30: “properatin' ocius?” id. Curc. 2, 2, 33: “simulabat sese negotii causā properare,” Sall. J. 76, 1; 58, 6: “in Italiam,” Caes. B. G. 2, 35; id. B. C. 2, 20: “ad praedam, ad gloriam,” id. ib. 2, 39: “ad gaudia,” Hor. C. 4, 12, 21: “Romam,” Cic. Mil. 19, 49: “in patriam,” id. Fam. 12, 25: “in fata,” Luc. 8, 658: “sacris, for a sacris,” Ov. M. 6, 201; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 58; “but sometimes with collat. notion of excessive haste: properantibus Blaesus advenit, increpabatque, etc. (cf. the context),” Tac. A. 1, 18; 13, 17.— With sup.: ultro licentiam in vos auctum, atque adjutum properatis, Sall. Or. Licin. ad Pleb. (H. 3, 61, 16 Dietsch).—With inf.: “argentum propere propera vomere,” Plaut. Curc. 5, 3, 10: “redire in patriam,” Cic. Prov. Cons. 14, 35: “quin huc ad vos venire propero?” id. Rep. 6, 15, 15: “signa inferre, atque evadere oppido,” Sall. J. 56, 5: “pervenire,” Caes. B. G. 2, 11: “aliquem amando Perdere,” Hor. C. 1, 8, 2.—With object-clause: “se quisque hostem ferire properabat,” Sall. C. 7, 6; Amm. 25, 7.—Impers. pass.: “properatum vehementer, cum, etc.,” Cic. Sull. 19, 54; Verg. A. 4, 416.—Transf., of inanimate subjects, with inf. pass.: “mala decerpi properantia,” Plin. 15, 14, 15, § 52.—Hence,
A. prŏpĕrans , antis, P. a., hastening, hasty, rapid, speedy (class.): “ille properans, festinans,” Cic. Phil. 9, 3, 6: “haec properantes scripsimus,” in haste, id. Att. 4, 4, a.—Comp.: “rotam solito properantior urget,” Claud. in Ruf. 2, 337.—Hence, adv.: prŏpĕran-ter , hastily, speedily, quickly (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf.: “propere, cito, festinanter, celeriter, etc.),” Lucr. 5, 300: “properanter accepit codicillos,” Tac. A. 16, 24.—Comp.: “beneficia properantius, quam aes mutuum, reddere,” Sall. J. 96, 2; 8, 2: “ire,” Ov. F. 4, 673.—Sup.: properantissime aliquid afferre, Cod. Th. 11, 30, 8.—
B. prŏpĕrātus , a, um, P. a., hurried, accelerated, rapid, quick, speedy (mostly poet.): “tabellae,” Ov. M. 9, 586: “mors,” id. Tr. 3, 3, 34: “gloria rerum,” id. M. 15, 748: “meta curribus,” i. e. rapidly approached, Mart. 10, 50, 7: “naves,” Tac. A. 2, 6: “tela,” id. ib. 2, 80.—Comp.: “properatius tempus,” Sol. 26.—Absol.: properato opus est, there is need of haste: “accurato et properato opus est,” Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 210: “erat nihil, cur properato opus esset,” Cic. Mil. 19, 49.—Hence, adv.: prŏpĕrā-tō , quickly, speedily (Tac.): “properato ad mortem agitur,” Tac. A. 13, 1.