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celeri

celeri is a Latin form of celer, meaning “swift, quick”. It is the dative singular masculine adjective or dative singular feminine adjective or dative singular neuter adjective or dative singular masculine noun.

Found 157 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.104: … ulta ex is memoria teneam. Ergo, ut oculis adsidue videmus, sine ulla mutatione aut varietate cetera labuntur celeri caelestia motu cum caeloque simul noctesque diesque feruntur,

Tacitus, Annales 1·45: … o tribuit, erogandae per honesta pecuniae cupiens, quam virtutem diu retinuit, cum ceteras exueret. Propertio Celeri praetorio, veniam ordinis ob paupertatem petenti, decies sestertium largitus est, satis conperto paternas ei …

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 16.19.1: CELERI admodum et cohibili oratione vocumque filo tereti et candido fabulam scripsit Herodotus super fidicine illo Arione.

All forms of celer (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.