FORWARD Copy link • FORWARD 1. Prompt, ready, promptus (always at hand): paratus (ready): officiosus (ready to serve): facilis (willing, obliging). To be forward to do anything, prompto or parato animo (facere aliquid). Earnest, eager, studiosus (eager, studious): acer (litterally, sharp): ardens (ardent, fiery): vehemens (vehement): fervens: fervidus (litterally, fiery, glowing, fervent). To be forward, calere, with or without in agendo: to be forward in anything, sedulo facere aliquid; naviter agere aliquid. Advanced toward ripeness; early ripe, quod non multum a maturitate abest (Caes.; which is nearly ripe): praematurus: praecox (the former, of fruit, which ripens before the usual time, opposed to serus; the latter of fruit that becomes ripe sooner than fruit of the same kind; metaphorically, of the human mind, Quint., 1, 3, 3: illud ingeniorum velut praecox genus non temere umquam pervenit ad frugem, i. e., those forward minds seldom come to their full perfection): an over-forward mind, immature magnum ingenium (e.g., non vitale est, Sen., Contr., 1, 1): an over-forward mind does not last long, cito occidit festinata maturitas (Quint.). Hasty; Vid: Bold, confidens (in classic prose, in a reproving sense only): protervus (pert, almost impudent): audax (bold, in a good and bad sense; audens is post-Augustan). 2. v. To despatch to its destination, perferendum curare (to take care that anything reaches its place of destination; e.g., to forward a letter, litteras perferendas curare; litteras permittere). To promote (e.g., the views or designs of anybody), juvare or adjuvare aliquem or aliquid: adjumento alicui esse: alicujus rei, or in re adjutorem, or (feminine) adjutricem esse (general terms, to afford any kind of assistance): alicujus rei esse ministrum (in a bad sense): augere, or adaugere aliquem or aliquid (to raise): alicui or alicui rei favere: fovere aliquid (to favor): alicui or alicui rei consulere, prospicere (to take measures for advancing it): alicui prodesse (to be of use): alicui consilio, studio, opera adesse (to forward anybody by counsel and deed). To forward anything earnestly, studiose adaugere aliquid: to forward anybody’s interests, servire alicujus commodis; rebus or rationibus alicujus consulere, prospicere; utilitatibus alicujus parere (to be very zealous in forwarding them): to forward the interests of the public, saluti reipublicae consulere; rem publicam juvare, tueri; reipublicae salutem suscipere. Vid: PROMOTE.