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hesternus

hesternus · adj

of yesterday

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Where it lives

Carmina Omnia 1 · 39.06/10k
Saturae 3 · 6.63/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 4 · 5.31/10k
Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 3 · 4.41/10k
In L. Catilinam 5 · 3.98/10k
Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 1 · 3.44/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 44 4 · 3.16/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 4 · 2.76/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
Elegiae 3 · 2.43/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 4 · 2.3/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 4 · 2.29/10k

Densest 12 of 66 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

hesternus — Lewis & Short

hesternus, a, um, adj.hes, whence heri, analog. with hodiernus,

I of yesterday, yesterday's: disputatio hesterni et hodierni diei, Cic. de Or. 3, 21, 81; cf.: hesterno die, id. N. D. 2, 29, 73: hesterno sermone, id. Rep. 3, 12 fin.: die, id. Cat. 2, 3, 6: nocte Ov. H. 19, 72: sermone, Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 18: disputatione, id. Tusc. 2, 4, 10: panis, Cels. 1, 3: reliquiae, of yesterday, Plaut. Pers. 1, 2, 25: jus, Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 17: cena, Plin. Pan. 6, 3, 3; Juv. 9, 44: minutal, id. 14, 129: fercula, Hor. S. 2, 6, 105: vitia, id. ib. 2, 2, 78: ex potatione, Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 66; cf.: Iaccho (i. e. vino), Verg. E. 6, 15: mero, Just. 24, 8: corollae, Prop. 2, 34 (3, 32), 59: crines, i. e. not yet arranged, id. 1, 15, 5; so, coma, Ov. A. A. 3, 154: Lar, to whom sacrifice was made yesterday, Verg. A. 8, 542 Serv.: ignes suscitat, Ov. M. 8, 643.—Facete: Quirites, Romans of yesterday, i. e. slaves recently made free, Pers. 3, 106.—Absol.: hesternorum immemores, acta pueritiae recordari, Quint. 11, 2, 6.—In the abl. adverb., hesterno (sc. die), yesterday, Sisenn. ap. Charis. p. 180 P.; Aus. Epigr. 74, 1; Sulpic. Sev. Dial. 3, 1, 1; 3, 5, 1.

In the wild

hesterno Livy, Ab urbe condita 3bis.40.9.10
hesterna Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 2 p65
hesternorum Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.2.6
hesterno Celsus, De Medicina 1.3.p5
hesterno Cicero, Philippicae 8.28.p2
hesterna Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.6.105

6 of 161 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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