DESPATCH Copy link • DESPATCHSend off, mittere (send; e.g., an ambassador, legatum, litteras, etc.): dimittere (several in different directions; proper word of sending off letters, scouts, etc.): (1) if the messengers are to go from person to person, or from place to place, per, or circum, or (Liv.) circa are used; (2) if to a person or nation, ad aliquem; (3) if to a district, in with accusative or ad before the name of a tribe, etc.; (4) in every direction, in omnes partes or quoquoversus. e.g., dimittere nuncios, litteras, etc., circum amicos; circum provincias exercitusque; per omnes provincias; ad Centrones; in finitimas civitates; in eam partem Italiae; in omnes partes; quoquoversus (Caes., B.G., 3, 23, 2): absolvere (to finish a thing; or let a person go whom one has long detained; Plaut.): legare: allegare (to despatch for the execution of a delegated office; e.g., homines nobiles allegat iis, qui peterent, etc., Cic., ; allegarem te ad illos, qui, etc.): to despatch a letter to anybody, mittere or dare litteras ad aliquem (dimittere, if to several in different places). To finish, execute, etc. [Vid: EXECUTE.] To exhort anybody to despatch a business, hortari aliquem ad aliquid perficiendum: to like to despatch a business quickly, consultis facta conjungere. To despatch a business, expedire negotium: conficere or transigere negotium: profligare negotium (Lentul. ap. Cic., Liv.; implying labour and exertion): to despatch anything between themselves, inter se transigere aliquid: the thing may be despatched in a few words, res paucis verbis transigi potest. Kill; Vid: DESPATCH, Act of sending off, dimissio (e.g., nuntii, of a messenger): missio (e.g., litterarum, legatorum, both Cic.); or by circumlocution. Give me my despatch, me absolvito (Plaut.). The execution, etc., of business, exsecutio (post-Augustan, negotii, Tac., ; instituti operis, Plin.): effectio (only in Cic.’s philosophical writings): peractio (Cic., Cato, Maj., 23, extr.). To prevent the despatch of a business, ne res conficiatur, obsistere: about the despatch of what remains to be done, de reliquis rebus maturandis et agendis (Cic.). Haste, speed [Vid:] , celeritas festinatioque: maturatio (Auct., ad Herenn.). There is need of despatch, properato or maturato opus est: the utmost possible despatch, quanta maxima adhiberi potest festinatio. Despatches, litterae: litterae publice missse (from a public officer).