adcelero

ac-cĕlĕro, āvi, ātum (also adc- ), 1, v. a. and n.

I.

Act., to hasten, accelerate: gressum adcelerāsse decet, Att. ap. Non. 89, 25 (Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 139); so,

gradum,

Liv. 2, 43, 8:

mortem,

Lucr. 6, 772:

iter,

Caes. B. C. 2, 39; Liv. 31, 29:

oppugnationem,

Tac. A. 12, 46:

consulatum alicui,

id. ib. 3, 75.— Pass., Tac. Agr. 43; id. H. 2, 85; id. A. 1, 50.—

II.

Neutr., to hasten, to make haste: si adcelerare volent, ad vesperam consequentur, * Cic. Cat. 2, 4, 6:

ipse quoque sibi acceleraret,

Nep. Att. 22, 2; Liv. 3, 27, 8; Verg. A. 5, 675; 9, 221, 505; Plin. 2, 17, 14, § 74 al.:

ad aliquem opprimendum,

Liv. 27, 47, 8.—With local accus.:

Cremonam,

Tac. H. 2, 100.— Impers.:

quantum accelerari posset,

as speedily as possible, Liv. 3, 46, 5.