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[Meaning] rather quickly.[1]
Or meaning more [sc. so].
"[Who] would send the food more quickly than the mother [would]?"[2]
"With a consul present, the deed was accomplished more quickly than according to expectation."[3]
And elsewhere: "he knew how to undertake the speeches more quickly than prudently."[4]
And elsewhere: "more quickly than a breath they folded around them and closing them in, shot them down."[5]
And elsewhere: "whose heart you would see more quickly than what is in the heart, as the tongue is unable to interpret the thought ..."[6]

*qa=tton a)napnoh=s: ta/xion. h)\ a)nti\ tou= ma=llon. ta\ siti/a th=s tekou/shs qa=tton e)pipe/myeien a)/n. u(pa/tou de\ paro/ntos, qa=tton h)\ kata\ do/can e)tele/sqh to\ e)/rgon. kai\ au)=qis: o( de\ qa=tton h)\ fronimw/teron e)gxeirei=n e)/gnw toi=s lo/gois. kai\ au)=qis: qa=tton a)napnoh=s au)tou\s e)pe/ptucan kai\ sugklei/santes kathko/ntisan. kai\ au)=qis: w(=n qa=tton a)\n i)/dois th\n kardi/an h)\ ta\ e)n th=| kardi/a|, a)dunatou/shs th=s glw/tths e)cermhneu=sai th\n gnw/mhn.

[1] The same gloss is used in Synagoge theta16 (and Photius, Lexicon theta34), and is among the glosses in Hesychius theta135, for the simple headword qa=tton ('more/rather quickly'). Etymologically the two words are equivalent, as comparative adjectives/adverbs formed from the combination of proto-Greek *qax-/qaxu- and the suffix -ion the headword being a more ancient formation (in Attic dialect, other dialects having qa=sson), and the gloss, ta/xion, a newer coining that is sparsely attested prior to the Common Era. Of the five quotations that follow, only the fourth contains the entire headword phrase. The rest illustrate the use of qa=tton alone. For other entries involving qa=tton/qa=sson see theta 64, theta 65 and theta 66.
[2] Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 234-5 (web address 1)
[3] Quotation not identified by Adler, but identifiable via the TLG as a close approximation (only the opening participle is different) of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 9.15.4. See on this Theodoridis' Photius edition, vol.II pp.LXXVIII-LXXIX.
[4] Quotation not identified by Adler, but identifiable via the TLG as Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 4.102. See Theodoridis op.cit. LXXXV.
[5] Quotation (more extensively at pi 1122) unidentifiable.
[6] Synesius, Dio 5 (PG 66.1125d).

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