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vēlo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [velum], to cover, cover up, wrap up, wrap, envelop, veil, etc. (class.; syn.: contego, induo).

  1. I. Lit.: capite velato, Cic. N. D. 2, 3, 10; Quint. 2, 13, 13; 6, 1, 48: caput velatum filo, Liv. 1, 32, 6; cf.: capita ante aras Phrygio amictu, Verg. A. 3, 545: varices, Quint. 11, 3, 143: partes tegendas, Ov. M. 13, 479: velanda corporis, Plin. Ep. 6, 24, 3: antennas, covered with or supporting the sails, Verg. A. 3, 549.
    Of clothing: velatus togā, enveloped, clothed, Liv. 3, 26, 10: purpurea veste, Ov. M. 2, 23: tunicā, id. F. 3, 645: stolā, Hor. S. 1, 2, 71; Tib. 1, 5, 25 (3, 4, 55): amiculis, Curt. 3, 3, 10: umeros chlamyde, Spart. Sev. 19.
    Of other objects: maternā tempora myrto, Verg. A. 5, 72: tempora purpureis tiaris, to wrap round, bind round, Ov. M. 11, 181: tempora vittis, id. P. 3, 2, 75: coronā, id. ib. 4, 14, 55; cf. in a Greek construction: Amphicus albenti velatus tempora vittā, id. M. 5, 110: cornua lauro, id. ib. 15, 592: frondibus hastam, id. ib. 3, 667: serta molas, id. F. 6, 312: Palatia sertis, id. Tr. 4, 2, 3: delubra deūm fronde, Verg. A. 2, 249: velatis manibus orant, ignoscamus peccatum suum, i. e. holding the velamenta (v. h. v. I. C.), Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 101; cf.: velati ramis oleae, Verg. A. 11, 101.
    1. B. Milit. t. t.; P. a. as subst.: vēlāti, ōrum, m., soldiers who wore only a cloak; only in the phrase accensi velati, a kind of supernumerary troops who followed the army to fill the places of any who might fall, Cic. Rep. 2, 22, 40; and in late Lat. inscrr. freq. sing.: ACCENSVS VELATVS, one such soldier, Inscr. Orell. 111; 1368; 2153; 2182; v. accenseo, P. a. B.
  2. II. Trop., to hide, conceal (post-Aug.; several times in Tac.; otherwise rare): odium fallacibus blanditiis, Tac. A. 14, 56: externa falsis armis, id. H. 4, 32; cf. id. A. 12, 61: primas adulescentis cupidines, id. ib. 13, 13: culpam invidiā, id. ib. 6, 29: scelere velandum est scelus, Sen. Hippol. 721: nihil (with omittere), Plin. Pan. 56, 1.
    Hence, * vēlātō, adv., through a veil, darkly, obscurely: deum discere, Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 29.

Bellocassi, ōrum (also Velocasses, ium, Caes. B. G 2, 4, and Velliocasses, Hirt. B. G. 8, 7), m., a people on the right bank of the Seine, from the mouth of the Oise to the town Le Pont de l’Arche, Caes. B. G. 7, 75

Velocasses, ĭum, v. Bellocassi.

vēlōcĭtas, ātis, f. [velox], swiftness, fleetness, speed, rapidity, velocity.

  1. I. Lit.: velocitate ad cursum valere, Cic. Off. 1, 30, 107: pernicitatem et velocitatem, id. Tusc. 5, 15, 45: velocitas corporis celeritas appellatur, id. ib. 4, 13, 31; Caes. B. G. 6, 28; Hirt. B. G. 8, 36; 8, 48; Quint. 2, 16, 13; 2, 20, 9; Nep. Epam. 2, 3: illa in rebus moliendis velocitas, Curt. 5, 7, 1; 5, 8, 2: velocitate opus est, quā celeritatem famae antecedas, id. 7, 2, 15.
    In plur.: non viribus aut velocitatibus aut celeritate corporum res magnae geruntur, sed, etc., Cic. Sen. 6, 17.
  2. II. Trop. (so perh. only post-Aug.): velocitas cogitationum animique celeritas, Plin. 7, 12, 10, § 52: animi exercitata studio, Quint. 5, 10, 123: mali, Tac. A. 15, 38: occasionum, id. H. 1, 83: sagacitatis, Val. Max. 7, 3, 4.
    Of speech, style, rapidity: immortalis illa Sallustii, Quint. 10, 1, 102; 9, 4, 83; 10, 7, 8.

vēlōcĭter, adv., v. velox fin.

vēlox, ōcis, adj. [akin to volare; cf. veles], swift, quick, fleet, rapid, speedy (class.; syn.: celer, pernix, praepes).

  1. I. Lit.: juvenes, Liv. 26, 4, 4: pedites velocissimi ac fortissimi, Caes. B. G. 1, 48: velocissimus quisque, Quint. 2, 3, 7: Breuni, Hor. C. 4, 14, 11: cervi, Verg. A. 5, 253: catuli, id. G. 3, 405: Pristis, id. A. 5, 116: pes, Ov. M. 1, 551: flamma, Lucr. 6, 688: jaculum, Verg. G. 2, 530: procella, Hor. C. 3, 27, 63: arbores, rapidly growing, Plin. 17, 13, 20, § 95: toxicum, quickly working, Hor. Epod. 17, 61; so, genus herbae ad mortem, etiam opio velocius, Plin. 21, 31, 105, § 180: horae, Ov. M. 2, 118: anni, Mart. 8, 8, 1: navigatio, Quint. 12, 2, 24: celeritas, Plin. 10, 24, 35, § 73: Victoria, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 64: moenia (thermae), quickly built, Mart. Spect. 2, 7.
    Poet., for the adv.: ille velox … Desilit in latices, Ov. M. 4, 352; Hor. C. 4, 12, 22; Luc. 9, 829.
    With inf.: nec jam hic absistere velox, Stat. Th. 6, 797.
    With ad and acc.: piger ad poenas princeps, ad praemia velox, Ov. P. 1, 2, 123.
  2. II. Trop.: nihil est animo velocius, Cic. Tusc. 1, 19, 43: ingenio veloci ac mobili, Quint. 6, 4, 8: natura humani ingenii agilis ac velox, id. 1, 12, 2: velox ingenio, Tac. Agr. 13: animus, Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 13: acutior atque velocior in urbanitate brevitas, Quint. 6, 3, 45; cf.: decurrere materiam stilo quam velocissimo, id. 10, 3, 17: velocior (in conjectando), Phaedr. 3, 3, 1.
    Adv.: vēlōcĭter, swiftly, quickly, speedily, Ov. M. 4, 509; 11, 586; Quint. 1, 1, 28; 2, 4, 28; 8, 3, 81; Plin. 16, 44, 90, § 241.
    Comp., Cic. Rep. 6, 26, 29.
    Sup., Cic. Univ. 9; Caes. B. G. 5, 35; Suet. Tit. 3.