1. INTRANS., (1) To go in haste to a place, aliquo venire or redire propero (to hasten, to reach or return to a place): aliquo ire contendere; aliquo tendere or contendere (to make a place the limit or goal of one’s march): aliquo ferri (to go to a place at full speed; as, Liv., 7, 15, cursu effuso ad castra ferebantur): accurrere, advolare ad or in locum (to run, to fly to a place; advolare also, of ships): contento cursu petere locum (to steer in full speed toward a place, of ships). To hasten back to the town, oppidum repetere: to hasten back to Rome, Romam redire propero: to hasten home, abeo festinans domum (from a place); domum venire propero (general term): to hasten back as quickly as possible to one’s native land (to one’s home, etc.); ventis remis in patriam omni festinatione properare (Cic., ad Fam., 12, 25, 3): the people hasten to a place from all sides, undique fit concursus; plebis fit concursus ad or in locum: to hasten to arms, ad arma discurrere (in all directions). (2) To be quick (in or at anything), accelerare (sc. iter, to hasten one’s march); properare (to endeavor to proceed forward with haste, to come nearer to an intended or fixed limit): festinare (not to be able to wait till the proper time, to be in a hurry). (The words are found in this connection and order.) festinare et properare; properare et festinare: maturare (to take pains not to miss the right moment of time; then, also, to be too hasty): festinationem or celeritatem adhibere (to use haste, general term): nullam moram interponere (to make no delay; in order to do anything, etc., either followed by quin, or with gerund in di; Vid: Cic., Phil., 10, 1, 1, and 6, 1, 2): to hasten as much as possible, nihil ad celeritatem sibi reliqui facere: he believed that he ought to hasten, maturandum sibi existimavit; maturandum ratus: we must hasten, properato or maturato opus est: hasten! [Vid: “make HASTE”]: ita fac venias (come quickly, as a request to an absent person)
2. TRANS., accelerare aliquid (to endeavor to accomplish a thing quickly): maturare aliquid, or with infinitive (not to delay anything for which the right time is come; but admaturare is only to bring completely to maturity, in Caes., B.G., 7, 54): properare (followed by infinitive; to hasten, in order to attain an object in the shortest possible time; poetically followed by accusative; so also poetically, with accusative, festinare, to accomplish with haste): propere or festinanter agere aliquid (to do anything in haste): repraesentare aliquid (to execute or accomplish anything without delay, even before the time; Vid: Herzog, Caes., B.G., 1, 40). To hasten anything too much, praecipitare aliquid (e.g., vindemiam): to hasten one’s journey, maturare or accelerare iter; maturare or properare proficisci (i. e., I am in haste to be gone); mature proficisci (to set off early): to hasten one’s arrival, mature venire: to hasten one’s destruction, maturare sibi exitum: to hasten the destruction of anybody, praecipitantem impellere.