Strong G5030ταχέως
soon
- Transliteration
- tacheōs
- Pronunciation
- takh-eh'-oce
- Morphology
- Greek Adverb
Definition
Adverb from G5036; briefly that is (in time) speedily or (in manner) rapidly: - hastily quickly shortly soon suddenly.
Detailed definition
ταχέως
(ταχύς)
adv., [in LXX chiefly for מְהֵרָה and cognate forms;]
quickly, hastily: Luk.14:21 16:6, Jhn.11:31, 1Co.4:19, Php.2:19, 24, 2Ti.4:9; with suggestion of rashness, Gal.1:6, 2Th.2:2, 1Ti.5:22.†
(AS)
(ταχύς)
adv., [in LXX chiefly for מְהֵרָה and cognate forms;]
quickly, hastily: Luk.14:21 16:6, Jhn.11:31, 1Co.4:19, Php.2:19, 24, 2Ti.4:9; with suggestion of rashness, Gal.1:6, 2Th.2:2, 1Ti.5:22.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5030 appears in 10 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- shortly4
- quickly2
- soon2
- hastily1
- suddenly1
First verses
- Luke 14:21So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
- Luke 16:6And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.
- John 11:31The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there.
- 1 Corinthians 4:19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
- Galatians 1:6I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
- Philippians 2:19But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
- Philippians 2:24But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:2That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
- 1 Timothy 5:22Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure.
- 2 Timothy 4:9Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:
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Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
Included with: τᾰχύς [ῠ], εῖα, ύ:
I of motion, swift, fleet, opposed to βραδύς,
I.1 of persons and animals, either absolutely, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.69, etc.)]; or more fully, πόδας ταχύς [Refs (13.249, 482, 17.709, etc.)]; ταχὺς ἔσκε θέειν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.308)]; θείειν τ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.186, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.112)]; κύνες, ἔλαφος, πτώξ, ἵππος, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.26, 8.248, 17.676, 23.347, etc.; οἰωνόν, ταχὺν ἄγγελον 24.292, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.526)]; τ. βαδιστής a quick walker, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1182)]; σφοδροὶ καὶ τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.1.31.)]
I.2 of things, τ. πόδες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.514, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.261, etc.)]; τ. ἰός, ὀϊστοί, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.94, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.3, etc.; πτερά 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1453; -ύτατα ἅρματα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.77)]; νῆες, τριήρεις, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.23, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.43, etc.; [ἴχνος] τὸ τοῦ ποδὸς μὲν βραδύ, τὸ τοῦ δὲ νοῦ ταχύ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 742.)]
II of thought and purpose, quick, hasty, φρονεῖν γὰρ οἱ ταχεῖς οὐκ ἀσφαλεῖς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 617: with)]infinitive, βλάπτειν τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1428; τ. βουλεῦσαί τι ἀνήκεστον 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.132, compare 118, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Dem.Enc.” 12; also τ. πρὸς ὀργήν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Mi.” 1)]; τὸ ταχύ speed, haste, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 452, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 7.18, etc.)]
II.2 of actions, events, etc., rapid, sudden, πήδημα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 833)]; ᾅδης, μόρος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1047, 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 3.26; πόλεμος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.55, 6.45; φυγή [prev. author] 4.44; μεταβολή 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 553d)]; short, τ. ἐλπίδες fleeting hopes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.83; ἐπαυρέσεις 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.53; ἀτραπός 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 127; ταχεῖ σὺν χρόνῳ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1602)]; τ. διήγησις short, rapid, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1416b30.)]
B adverb,
B.1 regular τᾰχέως, quickly, opposed to βραδέως, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.365, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 103, etc.)]:—rarely in sense perhaps [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (compare (τάχα 11), 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 16.25.8.)]
B.2 the adverb is also expressed by periphrastic, διὰ ταχέων in haste, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.80, 3.13, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 32d, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.5.9; ἐκ ταχείας 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 395; compare τάχος 11.)]
B.3 neuter ταχύ as adverb, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 10.51, “N.” 1.51, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 349, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 885 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 109, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.665, etc.)]; ἤδη ἤδη τ. τ. [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“Sammelb.” 4321.21, “BGU” 956.3 (both 3rd c.AD))]; ἄρτι ἄρτι τ. τ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“Arch.Papyrus” 5.393 (2nd c.AD))]; also τάχα (which see).
B.4 the adjective ταχύς is frequently construed with Verbs, where we should use the adverb, ταχέες δ᾽ ἱππῆες ἄγερθεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.287; ταχεῖά γ᾽ ἦλθε χρησμῶν πρᾶξις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 739; ὁρμάσθω ταχύς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 526)]; δεῦρ᾽ ἀφίξεται τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “OC” 307; τ. χάρις διαρρεῖ [prev. author] “Aj.” 1266, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.75, 5.66.)]
C Degrees of Comparison:
C.I comparative:
C.I.1 the form τᾰχύτερος, α, ον, is used by [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus, ἐποίησα ταχύτερα ἢ σοφώτερα 3.65, compare 7.194)]; also in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 394b3, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Indica” 9.6, 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 1.16)], but not in good Attic dialect; ταχύτερον as adverb, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.127, 9.101, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προγνωστικόν” 17.)]
C.I.2 the more usual form is θάσσων, neuter θᾶσσον, genitive ονος, Attic dialect θάττων, neuter θᾶττον, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.570, 13.819 (elsewhere only _neuter_ in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus))], etc.:—neuter as adverb, frequently in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.307, +others)]; θᾶσσον ἂν.. κλύοιμι sooner, i.e. rather, would I hear, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 631)]; θᾶσσον also often stands for the Positive, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.440, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.201, 16.130, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.181, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 506, “V.” 187, “Ra.” 94)]; οὐ θᾶσσον οἴσει; i.e. make haste and bring, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1183, compare “OT” 430)]; θᾶττον νοήματος quicker than thought, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.3.13, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 824, etc.)]; with a conjunction, ὅτι θᾶσσον, like{ὅτι τάχιστα}, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 24.48)]; ἐπειδὴ θᾶττον συνεσκότασεν as soon as.. , [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 54.5; ἐπειδὰν θ. συνιῇ τις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 325c; ὅταν θ. φθέγγηται ὁ κόκκυξ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 563b17, compare 611a5)]; ἐὰν or ἢν θ. as soon as.. , [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.20, “An.” 6.5.20, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus1.105a)]; ἂν θ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 174)]; εἰ θ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 324b)]; ὡς θ. [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.66.1, 3.82.1)]; θ. rarely = sooner than, before, ἐξήλαυνον μεσημβρίας οὐ πολλῷ τινι θ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor “Orationes” 51 (27). 13 (compare τάχιον below 3).)]
C.I.3 the form ταχίων [ῑ], neuter ιον, is frequently in late Prose, as [LXX+5th c.BC+ (LXX.Wis.13.9, LXX.1Mac.2.40, 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 69.14, 17, 73.23, 1st c.BC: Geminus Astronomicus 1.20, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 6.42, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 20.6, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus (see. below), 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.240d, NT.John.20.4, 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.4; also in 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 1.1, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 402.16)]; but condemned by [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 58, 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus “Philet.” p.436 P.)]; τὴν ταχίονα τῆς τροφῆς παράθεσιν earlier, sooner, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.206:)] — adverb τάχιον earlier, πλέεται.. περὶ τὸν Σεπτέμβριον μῆνα.., οὐδὲν δὲ κωλύει κἂν τ. [Refs (“Periplus Maris Rubri [1st c.AD]” 24)]; τ. τῆς ὑποσχέσεως sooner than they had promised, [Refs (“Rev.Ét.Gr.” 6.159 (from Iasus))]; τ. τοῦ παραγγέλματος [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 4.4.2; εἰς μακρὸν αὐτῶν γῆρας καὶ βίου μῆκος ὅμοιον τοῖς τ. ἐπερχομένων [prev. author] “AJ” 1.3.7; ἀποπαύεται οὔτε τ. ἐτῶν τεσσαράκοντα οὔτε βράδιον ἐτῶν πεντήκοντα 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.20, compare 48, +others)]; formerly, ἐπεσκεύασαν τὸ παρόχιον,.. τ. γενόμενον γυμνάσιον [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“IGRom.” 3.639 (Lycia, 2nd c.AD), compare 4.1517 (from Sardis), 1632.14 (from Philadelphia), 1665.5 (from Tira), Keil-Premerstein “Dritter Bericht“ p.79 (3rd c.AD), “Hermes” 63.229 (from Callatis))]; compare above 2 near the end
C.II superlative:
C.II.1 the form ταχύτατος is rare, ταχύτατα ἅρματα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.77)]; ταχύτατα as adverb, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.1.27 codices, 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 87 codices)]; but both passages have been corrected.
C.II.2 the usual form is τάχιστος, η, ον, used by [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus only in _neuter_ _plural_ τάχιστα)] as adverb, most quickly, most speedily, ὅττι τάχιστα as soon as may be, as soon as possible, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.193, 9.659, +others; ὅτι τάχιστα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1341 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.31, etc.)]; so ὅσον τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 772, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1436, etc.)]; ᾳ (probably) τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.79)]; ὅπως τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 605, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1410, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 167)]; ὡς τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 12.76.23, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.210, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.15, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 147, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.3.14)]: these are elliptically phrases, as may be seen from the following examples, ὡς δυνατόν ἐστι τάχιστα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 710b, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.4.3)]; ᾗ δυνατὸν τ. [Refs ([prev. author] “HG” 6.3.6)]; ὡς or ᾗ ἠδύνατο τ. [Refs ([prev. author] “Cyr.” 3.2.14, “An.” 1.2.4)]; ὡς δύναιτο τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.79)]; ὡς or ᾗ ἂν δύνωμαι τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.1.38, “Cyr.” 7.1.9, compare “IG” 12.106.18.)]
C.II.2.b τάχιστα after Particles of Time, as soon as, ἐπεὶ (Ionic dialect ἐπεί τε) τάχιστα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 201, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.27, 75, 7.163, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.2.6, “PCair.Zen.” 34.12 (3rd c.BC))]; ἐπειδὴ τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 310d, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 9.3, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.16, etc.)]; ἐπεὰν τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.134, 7.129, 8.144)]; ἐπὰν τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.6.9)]; ἐπειδὰν τ. [Refs ([prev. author] “Cyr.” 1.3.14, “An.” 3.1.9)]; ὅταν τ. [Refs ([prev. author] “Cyr.” 4.5.33: also ὡς τ)]. separated by one or more words, ὡς ἡμέρη τ. ἐγεγόνεε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.11, compare 19, 47, 65, +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.3.2, “Mem.” 1.2.16, +others; ὡς δὲ τ. ἐξῆλθε.. κόρον ἔτεκε “IG” 42(1).121.4 (Epid., 4th c.BC))]; ὡς γὰρ τ. εἰσῆλθον [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 287; ὡς ἂν τ. λάβῃς τὴν ἐπιστολήν “PCair.Zen.” 241.1 (3rd c.BC); but ὡς τ. γὰρ ἀπεδήμησας [prev. work] 472.7 (3rd c.BC))]; ὅπως τ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 230:)] —the same notion is sometimes expressed by the participle, ἀπαλλαγεὶς τάχιστα, ={ὡς ἀπηλλάγη τ}., [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Demosthenes” 8, compare 25.)]
C.II.3 frequently also in Prose, τὴν ταχίστην (in full, τὴν τ. ὁδόν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.20, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Rh.Pr.” 4))] as adverb, by the quickest way, i.e. most quickly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.24, 73, 81, 86, 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “pro Euxenippo” 7, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 75, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.33.4, etc. (Cf. Lith. (dialogue))] deñgti, Lett. diêgt, both = 'run quickly', Polish dążyć 'hurry'.)
I of motion, swift, fleet, opposed to βραδύς,
I.1 of persons and animals, either absolutely, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.69, etc.)]; or more fully, πόδας ταχύς [Refs (13.249, 482, 17.709, etc.)]; ταχὺς ἔσκε θέειν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.308)]; θείειν τ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.186, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.112)]; κύνες, ἔλαφος, πτώξ, ἵππος, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.26, 8.248, 17.676, 23.347, etc.; οἰωνόν, ταχὺν ἄγγελον 24.292, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.526)]; τ. βαδιστής a quick walker, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1182)]; σφοδροὶ καὶ τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.1.31.)]
I.2 of things, τ. πόδες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.514, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.261, etc.)]; τ. ἰός, ὀϊστοί, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.94, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.3, etc.; πτερά 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1453; -ύτατα ἅρματα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.77)]; νῆες, τριήρεις, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.23, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.43, etc.; [ἴχνος] τὸ τοῦ ποδὸς μὲν βραδύ, τὸ τοῦ δὲ νοῦ ταχύ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 742.)]
II of thought and purpose, quick, hasty, φρονεῖν γὰρ οἱ ταχεῖς οὐκ ἀσφαλεῖς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 617: with)]infinitive, βλάπτειν τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1428; τ. βουλεῦσαί τι ἀνήκεστον 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.132, compare 118, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Dem.Enc.” 12; also τ. πρὸς ὀργήν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Mi.” 1)]; τὸ ταχύ speed, haste, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 452, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 7.18, etc.)]
II.2 of actions, events, etc., rapid, sudden, πήδημα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 833)]; ᾅδης, μόρος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1047, 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 3.26; πόλεμος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.55, 6.45; φυγή [prev. author] 4.44; μεταβολή 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 553d)]; short, τ. ἐλπίδες fleeting hopes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.83; ἐπαυρέσεις 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.53; ἀτραπός 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 127; ταχεῖ σὺν χρόνῳ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1602)]; τ. διήγησις short, rapid, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1416b30.)]
B adverb,
B.1 regular τᾰχέως, quickly, opposed to βραδέως, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.365, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 103, etc.)]:—rarely in sense perhaps [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (compare (τάχα 11), 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 16.25.8.)]
B.2 the adverb is also expressed by periphrastic, διὰ ταχέων in haste, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.80, 3.13, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 32d, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.5.9; ἐκ ταχείας 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 395; compare τάχος 11.)]
B.3 neuter ταχύ as adverb, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 10.51, “N.” 1.51, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 349, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 885 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 109, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.665, etc.)]; ἤδη ἤδη τ. τ. [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“Sammelb.” 4321.21, “BGU” 956.3 (both 3rd c.AD))]; ἄρτι ἄρτι τ. τ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“Arch.Papyrus” 5.393 (2nd c.AD))]; also τάχα (which see).
B.4 the adjective ταχύς is frequently construed with Verbs, where we should use the adverb, ταχέες δ᾽ ἱππῆες ἄγερθεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.287; ταχεῖά γ᾽ ἦλθε χρησμῶν πρᾶξις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 739; ὁρμάσθω ταχύς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 526)]; δεῦρ᾽ ἀφίξεται τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “OC” 307; τ. χάρις διαρρεῖ [prev. author] “Aj.” 1266, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.75, 5.66.)]
C Degrees of Comparison:
C.I comparative:
C.I.1 the form τᾰχύτερος, α, ον, is used by [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus, ἐποίησα ταχύτερα ἢ σοφώτερα 3.65, compare 7.194)]; also in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 394b3, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Indica” 9.6, 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 1.16)], but not in good Attic dialect; ταχύτερον as adverb, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.127, 9.101, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προγνωστικόν” 17.)]
C.I.2 the more usual form is θάσσων, neuter θᾶσσον, genitive ονος, Attic dialect θάττων, neuter θᾶττον, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.570, 13.819 (elsewhere only _neuter_ in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus))], etc.:—neuter as adverb, frequently in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.307, +others)]; θᾶσσον ἂν.. κλύοιμι sooner, i.e. rather, would I hear, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 631)]; θᾶσσον also often stands for the Positive, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.440, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.201, 16.130, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.181, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 506, “V.” 187, “Ra.” 94)]; οὐ θᾶσσον οἴσει; i.e. make haste and bring, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1183, compare “OT” 430)]; θᾶττον νοήματος quicker than thought, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.3.13, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 824, etc.)]; with a conjunction, ὅτι θᾶσσον, like{ὅτι τάχιστα}, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 24.48)]; ἐπειδὴ θᾶττον συνεσκότασεν as soon as.. , [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 54.5; ἐπειδὰν θ. συνιῇ τις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 325c; ὅταν θ. φθέγγηται ὁ κόκκυξ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 563b17, compare 611a5)]; ἐὰν or ἢν θ. as soon as.. , [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.20, “An.” 6.5.20, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus1.105a)]; ἂν θ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 174)]; εἰ θ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 324b)]; ὡς θ. [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.66.1, 3.82.1)]; θ. rarely = sooner than, before, ἐξήλαυνον μεσημβρίας οὐ πολλῷ τινι θ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor “Orationes” 51 (27). 13 (compare τάχιον below 3).)]
C.I.3 the form ταχίων [ῑ], neuter ιον, is frequently in late Prose, as [LXX+5th c.BC+ (LXX.Wis.13.9, LXX.1Mac.2.40, 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 69.14, 17, 73.23, 1st c.BC: Geminus Astronomicus 1.20, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 6.42, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 20.6, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus (see. below), 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.240d, NT.John.20.4, 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.4; also in 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 1.1, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 402.16)]; but condemned by [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 58, 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus “Philet.” p.436 P.)]; τὴν ταχίονα τῆς τροφῆς παράθεσιν earlier, sooner, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.206:)] — adverb τάχιον earlier, πλέεται.. περὶ τὸν Σεπτέμβριον μῆνα.., οὐδὲν δὲ κωλύει κἂν τ. [Refs (“Periplus Maris Rubri [1st c.AD]” 24)]; τ. τῆς ὑποσχέσεως sooner than they had promised, [Refs (“Rev.Ét.Gr.” 6.159 (from Iasus))]; τ. τοῦ παραγγέλματος [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 4.4.2; εἰς μακρὸν αὐτῶν γῆρας καὶ βίου μῆκος ὅμοιον τοῖς τ. ἐπερχομένων [prev. author] “AJ” 1.3.7; ἀποπαύεται οὔτε τ. ἐτῶν τεσσαράκοντα οὔτε βράδιον ἐτῶν πεντήκοντα 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.20, compare 48, +others)]; formerly, ἐπεσκεύασαν τὸ παρόχιον,.. τ. γενόμενον γυμνάσιον [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“IGRom.” 3.639 (Lycia, 2nd c.AD), compare 4.1517 (from Sardis), 1632.14 (from Philadelphia), 1665.5 (from Tira), Keil-Premerstein “Dritter Bericht“ p.79 (3rd c.AD), “Hermes” 63.229 (from Callatis))]; compare above 2 near the end
C.II superlative:
C.II.1 the form ταχύτατος is rare, ταχύτατα ἅρματα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.77)]; ταχύτατα as adverb, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.1.27 codices, 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 87 codices)]; but both passages have been corrected.
C.II.2 the usual form is τάχιστος, η, ον, used by [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus only in _neuter_ _plural_ τάχιστα)] as adverb, most quickly, most speedily, ὅττι τάχιστα as soon as may be, as soon as possible, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.193, 9.659, +others; ὅτι τάχιστα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1341 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.31, etc.)]; so ὅσον τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 772, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1436, etc.)]; ᾳ (probably) τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.79)]; ὅπως τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 605, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1410, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 167)]; ὡς τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 12.76.23, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.210, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.15, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 147, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.3.14)]: these are elliptically phrases, as may be seen from the following examples, ὡς δυνατόν ἐστι τάχιστα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 710b, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.4.3)]; ᾗ δυνατὸν τ. [Refs ([prev. author] “HG” 6.3.6)]; ὡς or ᾗ ἠδύνατο τ. [Refs ([prev. author] “Cyr.” 3.2.14, “An.” 1.2.4)]; ὡς δύναιτο τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.79)]; ὡς or ᾗ ἂν δύνωμαι τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.1.38, “Cyr.” 7.1.9, compare “IG” 12.106.18.)]
C.II.2.b τάχιστα after Particles of Time, as soon as, ἐπεὶ (Ionic dialect ἐπεί τε) τάχιστα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 201, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.27, 75, 7.163, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.2.6, “PCair.Zen.” 34.12 (3rd c.BC))]; ἐπειδὴ τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 310d, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 9.3, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.16, etc.)]; ἐπεὰν τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.134, 7.129, 8.144)]; ἐπὰν τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.6.9)]; ἐπειδὰν τ. [Refs ([prev. author] “Cyr.” 1.3.14, “An.” 3.1.9)]; ὅταν τ. [Refs ([prev. author] “Cyr.” 4.5.33: also ὡς τ)]. separated by one or more words, ὡς ἡμέρη τ. ἐγεγόνεε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.11, compare 19, 47, 65, +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.3.2, “Mem.” 1.2.16, +others; ὡς δὲ τ. ἐξῆλθε.. κόρον ἔτεκε “IG” 42(1).121.4 (Epid., 4th c.BC))]; ὡς γὰρ τ. εἰσῆλθον [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 287; ὡς ἂν τ. λάβῃς τὴν ἐπιστολήν “PCair.Zen.” 241.1 (3rd c.BC); but ὡς τ. γὰρ ἀπεδήμησας [prev. work] 472.7 (3rd c.BC))]; ὅπως τ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 230:)] —the same notion is sometimes expressed by the participle, ἀπαλλαγεὶς τάχιστα, ={ὡς ἀπηλλάγη τ}., [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Demosthenes” 8, compare 25.)]
C.II.3 frequently also in Prose, τὴν ταχίστην (in full, τὴν τ. ὁδόν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.20, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Rh.Pr.” 4))] as adverb, by the quickest way, i.e. most quickly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.24, 73, 81, 86, 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “pro Euxenippo” 7, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 75, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.33.4, etc. (Cf. Lith. (dialogue))] deñgti, Lett. diêgt, both = 'run quickly', Polish dążyć 'hurry'.)