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ocius

ocius is a Latin form of ocior, meaning “swifter; (ocius) more quickly, sooner”. It is the adverb.

Found 151 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 6.29: … salute patriae, quibus agitatus et exercitatus animus velocius in hanc sedem et domum suam pervolabit; idque ocius faciet, si iam tum, cum erit inclusus in corpore, eminebit foras et ea, quae extra erunt, contemplans quam ma …

Vergil, Eclogues 7.8: aspicio. Ille ubi me contra videt: “Ocius” inquit

Plautus, Persa 2.1.181: iré decet me, út erae opsequéns fiam, libéra ea opera ócius ut sit.

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.