10. Day—Divisions of the Day

_ante lucem_—before daybreak.

_prima luce_—at daybreak.

_luce (luci)_—in full daylight.

_ubi illuxit, luxit, diluxit_—when it was day.

_lucet_—it is daylight.

_diluculo_—in the morning twilight.

_advesperascit_—evening is drawing on.

_die, caelo vesperascente_—when it is growing dusk; towards evening.

_multus dies_ or _multa lux est_—the day is already far advanced.

_ad multam noctem_—till late at night.

_de nocte, de die_—while it is still night, day.

_multa de nocte_—late at night.

_intempesta, concubia nocte_—in the dead of night; at midnight.

_silentio noctis_—in the silence of the night.

_vicissitudines dierum noctiumque_—the succession of day and night.

_noctes diesque, noctes et dies, et dies et noctes, dies noctesque,

diem noctemque_—night and day.

_tempus matutīnum, meridianum, vespertinum, nocturnum_—morning, noon,

evening, night.

_tempora matutina_—the morning hours.

_in dies (singulos)_—from day to day.

_in diem vivere_—to live from day to day.

_alternis diebus_—every other day.

_quattuor dies continui_—four successive days.

_unus et alter dies_—one or two days.

_dies unus, alter, plures intercesserant_—one, two, several days had

passed, intervened.

_diem proferre_ (Att. 13. 14)—to adjourn, delay.

_biduo serius_[1]—two days late.

_horā citius_—an hour too soon.

_postridie qui fuit dies Non. Sept. (Nonarum Septembrium)_ (Att. 4. 1.

5)—on the day after, which was September 5th.

_hodie qui est dies Non. Sept.; cras qui dies futurus est Non.

Sept._—to-day the 5th of September; tomorrow September the 5th.

_dies hesternus, hodiernus, crastinus_—yesterday, to-day, tomorrow.

_diem dicere colloquio_—to appoint a date for an interview.

_ad diem constitutam_—at the appointed time.

_diem videre, cum..._—to live to see the day when...

_dies dolorem mitigabit_—time will assuage his grief.

_quota hora est?_—what time is it?

_tertia hora est_—it is the third hour (= 9 A.M.)

_ad horam compositam_—at the time agreed on.

[1] Used absolutely "too late" = _sero_; if "too late for," "later

than," always _serius (quam)_.

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