dĭes (noun M.f) : (dīes, Liv. Andron. Fragm. Odys. 7), ēi (ẽī, Verg. A. 4, 156; Hor. S. 1, 8, 35 et saep.;
* Dissyl.: di-ei,Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 31; also gen. dies, die, and dii—dies, as in acies, facies, pernicies, etc., Enn. ap. Gell. 9, 14; Ann. v. 401 Vahl.; Cic. Sest. 12, 28 ap. Gell. l. l.: die,Prisc. p. 780 P.; even in Verg. G. 1, 208, where Gellius reads dies, v. Wagner ad loc., nearly all MSS. have die; cf. Rib. and Forbig. ad loc.; so, die,Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 59; id. Capt. 4, 2, 20; Caes. B. G. 7, 11, 5; id. B. C. 1, 14, 3; 3, 76, 2; Just. 2, 11, 17; cf. Oud. ad B. G. 2, 23, 1. Die appears to be certain in Sall. J. 52, 3; 97, 3. Also in Cic. Sest. 12, 28, Gellius reads dies, where our MSS., except the Cod. Lamb., have diei; perh. those words do not belong to Cicero himself. Form dii,Verg. A. 1, 636, Rib. and Forbig. after Serv. and Gell. l. l.— Dat., diēī, saep. die, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 120, acc. to Serv. Verg. G. 1, 208; Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 48; id. Capt. 3, 1, 4; id. Trin. 4, 2, 1; once dii,id. Merc. 1, Prol. 13; cf. Roby, Gram. 1, 121 sq.); m. (in sing. sometimes f., esp. in the signif. no. I. B. 1.) [root Sanscr. dī, gleam: dinas, day; Gr. δῖος, heavenly; cf. Lat. Jovis (Diovis), Diana, deus, dīvus, etc. Old form, dius (for divus); cf.: nudius, diu, etc. The word also appears in composition in many particles, as pridem, hodie, diu, etc., v. Corss. Auspr. 2, 855 sq.], a day (cf.: tempus, tempestas, aetas, aevum, spatium, intervallum).
* Lit.
* In gen., the civil day of twenty-four hours.
* Transf.
* In partic.
* Dies personified.
* A set day, appointed time, term in the widest sense of the word (for appearing before court, in the army, making a payment, etc.).
* Masc.: MORBVS SONTICVS ... STATVS DIES CVM HOSTE ... QVID HORVM FVIT VNVM IVDICI ARBITROVE REOVE DIES DIFFISVS ESTO, XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 12; Fest. p. 273, 26 Müll.; for which: STATVS CONDICTVSVE DIES CVM HOSTE, acc. to Cincius ap. Gell. 16, 4, 4; and with comic reference to the words of this law,Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 5 (found also in Macr. S. 1, 16); and freq.: status dies,Plin. Ep. 9, 39, 1; Suet. Claud. 1; Flor. 1, 13, 16 et saep.: hic nuptiis dictus est dies,Ter. And. 1, 1, 75; cf.: dies colloquio dictus est ex eo die quintus,Caes. B. G. 1, 42, 4; so, dictus,id. ib. 5, 27, 5: iis certum diem conveniendi dicit,id. ib. 5, 57, 2: die certo,Sall. J. 79, 4; cf. constituto,id. ib. 13 fin.: decretus colloquio,id. ib. 113, 3: praestitutus,Liv. 3, 22: praefinitus,Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 109; Gell. 16, 4, 3: ascriptus,Phaedr. 4, 11, 8 et saep.: quoniam advesperascit, dabis diem nobis aliquem, ut contra ista dicamus,Cic. N. D. 3, 40; Caes. B. G. 1, 16, 5; id. B. C. 1, 11, 2; Sall. J. 109, 3; Liv. 35, 35 et saep.: dies ater,an unlucky day,Sen. Vit. Beat. 25.
* A natural day, a day, as opp. to night: ut vel, quia est aliquid, aliud non sit, ut Dies est, nox non est; vel, quia est aliquid, et aliud sit: Sol est super terram, dies est, Quint. 5, 8, 7: pro di immortales, quis hic illuxit dies, Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 9, 4, 76: credibile non est, quantum scribam die, quin etiam noctibus,in the daytime,id. Att. 13, 26: negat ullum esse cibum tam gravem, quin is die et nocte concoquatur,in a single day and night,id. N. D. 2, 9, 24; cf. in this signif.: die ac nocte,Plin. 29, 6, 36, § 113: nocte et die,Liv. 25, 39; and simply die,Hor. S. 2, 1, 4; Quint. 10, 3, 8; cf. also: currus rogat ille paternos, Inque diem alipedum jus et moderamen equorum,Ov. M. 2, 48; and, connected with nox: (Themistocles) diem noctemque procul ab insula in salo navem tenuit in ancoris,Nep. Them. 8 fin.; cf. Cic. Div. 2, 27, 59; Liv. 22, 1 fin.—But more freq.: diem noctemque, like our day and night, i. q. without ceasing, uninterruptedly; Caes. B. G. 7, 77, 11; 7, 42 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 62; for which less freq.: diem et noctem,Hirt. B. Hisp. 38, 1; diem ac noctem,Liv. 27, 4 and 45: noctemque diemque,Verg. A. 8, 94; cf. Quint. 9, 4, 23: continuate nocte ac die itinere,Caes. B. C. 3, 11, 1; 3, 36, 8; and in plur.: dies noctesque,Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 49; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 113; Cic. Att. 7, 9 fin.; Nep. Dat. 4, 4 et saep.; also, reversing the order: noctesque diesque, Enn. ap. Cic. de Sen. 1, 1 (Ann. v. 338 ed. Vahl.); Hor. S. 1, 1, 76: noctesque et dies,Ter. And. 4, 1, 52; id. Eun. 5, 8, 49: noctes atque dies,Lucr. 2, 12; 3, 62; Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 51; Verg. A. 6, 127 al.: noctes diesque,id. ib. 9, 488: noctes ac dies,Cic. Arch. 11, 29: noctes et dies,id. Brut. 90, 308; id. de Or. 1, 61, 260; id. Tusc. 5, 25 and 39; Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 49; cf. also: neque noctem neque diem intermittit,Caes. B. G. 5, 38: Galli dies ... sic observant, ut noctem dies subsequatur,id. ib. 6, 18, 2 Herz ad loc. So, too, in gen.: qui nocte dieque frequentat Limina,Mart. 10, 58, 11: cum die,at break of day,Ov. M. 13, 677: orto die ( = orta luce),Tac. A. 1, 20; 1, 68; id. H. 2, 21: ante diem ( = ante lucem),Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 35: dies fit, late Lat. for lucescit,Vulg. Luc. 22, 66: de die, in open day, broad day; v. de.
* Dies alicujus (like the Heb. ; v. Gesen. Lex. s. h. v.).
* I. q. dies natalis, a birthday: diem meum scis esse III. Non. Jan. Aderis igitur,Cic. Att. 13, 42, 2; cf. in full: natali die tuo,id. ib. 9, 5 al. So the anniversary day of the foundation of a city is, dies natalis urbis, Cic. Div. 2, 47, 98.
* I. q. dies mortis, dying-day: quandocumque fatalis et meus dies veniet statuarque tumulo,Tac. Or. 13 fin. Called, also: supremus dies. Suet. Aug. 99; id. Tib. 67; cf.: supremus vitae dies,Cic. de Sen. 21, 78; Suet. Aug. 61. Hence: diem suum obire,to die,Sulp. in Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 2; and in the same sense: obire diem supremum,Nep. Milt. 7 fin.; id. Dion. 2 fin.; Suet. Claud. 1: exigere diem supremum,Tac. A. 3, 16: explere supremum diem,id. ib. 1, 6; 3, 76; and simply: obire diem,Plin. 2, 109, 112, § 248; Suet. Tib. 4; id. Vesp. 1; id. Gr. 3; cf. also: fungi diem,Just. 19, 1, 1.
* I. q. dies febris, fever-day: etsi Non. Mart., die tuo, ut opinor, exspectabam epistolam a te longiorem, Cic. Att. 9, 2 init.; 7, 8, 2 al.
* In gen. (from no. I. A.).
* A day, for that which is done in it (cf. the Hebr. , the Gr. ἐλεύθερον ἦμαρ, etc.): is dies honestissimus nobis fuerat in senatu,Cic. Fam. 1, 2, 3: non tam dirus ille dies Sullanus C. Mario,id. Att. 10, 8, 7: equites Romanos daturos illius diei poenas,id. Sest. 12, 28: hic dies et Romanis refecit animos et Persea perculit,Liv. 42, 67 Drak.; cf. id. 9, 39 fin.; Vell. 2, 35 Ruhnk.; 2, 86; Just. 9, 3 fin.; Flor. 2, 6, 58 Duker.: imponite quinquaginta annis magnum diem,Tac. Agr. 34: quid pulchrius hac consuetudine excutiendi totum diem? ... totum diem mecum scrutor, facta ac dicta mea remetior, etc., Sen. de Ira, 3, 36: dies Alliensis, i. q. pugna Alliensis,Liv. 6, 1; Suet. Vit. 11: Cannensis,Flor. 4, 12, 35 al. And so even of one's state of mind on any particular day: qualem diem Tiberius induisset,what humor, temper,Tac. A. 6, 20.
* In partic. (acc. to no. I. B. 2—poet., and in postAug. prose).
* In gen. (like , ἡμέρα, and our day, for) time, space of time, period: diem tempusque forsitan ipsum leniturum iras,Liv. 2, 45; so with tempus,id. 22, 39; 42, 50: amorem intercapedine ipse lenivit dies, Turp. ap. Non. 522, 7; so in the masc. gender: longus,Stat. Th. 1, 638; Luc. 3, 139; but also longa,Plaut. Epid. 4, 1, 18; Plin. Ep. 8, 5 fin.; cf. perexigua,a brief respite,Cic. Verr. 1, 2 fin.: nulla,Ov. M. 4, 372 al.: ex ea die ad hanc diem quae fecisti, in judicium voco,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 12 fin.: ut infringatur hominum improbitas ipsa die, quae debilitat cogitationes, etc.,id. Fam. 1, 6; cf. id. ib. 7, 28 fin.; id. Tusc. 3, 22, 53 al.: indutiae inde, non pax facta; quarum et dies exierat, et ante diem rebellaverant,i. e. the term of the truce,Liv. 4, 30 fin.; 30, 24; 42, 47 fin. (for which: quia tempus indutiarum cum Veienti populo exierat, id. 4, 58).—Prov.: dies adimit aegritudinem,Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 13: dies festus, festival-time, festival:—diem festum Dianae per triduum agi, Liv. 25, 23 et saep.: die lanam et agnos vendat,at the right time,Cato R. R. 150, 2: praesens quod fuerat malum, in diem abiit,to a future time,Ter. Ph. 5, 2, 16; so in diem, opp. statim, Q. Cic. Pet. cons. 12, 48; and simply in diem,Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 48; Ter. Eun. 5, 7, 19; Cic. Cael. 24.—Esp. freq. in diem vivere, to live on from day to day, regardless of the future, Cic. de Or. 2, 40, 169; id. Tusc. 5, 11, 33; Plin. Ep. 5, 5, 4 et saep; cf. the equivoque with de die, under de.
* Light of day, daylight: contraque diem radiosque micantes Obliquantem oculos,Ov. M. 7, 411; 5, 444; 13, 602: multis mensibus non cernitur dies,Plin. 33, 4, 21, § 70; Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 6; 9, 36, 2 al.; also of the eyesight, Stat. Th. 1, 237; and trop. of the conscience: saeva dies animi scelerumque in pectore Dirae,id. ib. 1, 52.
* For caelum, the sky, the heavens: sub quocumque die, quocumque est sidere mundi,Luc. 7, 189; 1, 153: incendere diem nubes oriente remotae,id. 4, 68; 8, 217; Stat. Th. 1, 201.—Hence, like caelum
* The weather: totumque per annum Durat aprica dies,Val. Fl. 1, 845: tranquillus,Plin. 2, 45, 44, § 115: mitis,id. 11, 10, 10, § 20: pestilens,id. 22, 23, 49, § 104.
* The air: nigrique volumina fumi Infecere diem,Ov. M. 13, 600: cupio flatu violare diem,Claud. in Ruf. 1, 63.
* I. q. Sol, opp. Luna, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 21; coupled with Mensis and Annus,Ov. M. 2, 25.
* As fem., the daughter of Chaos, and mother of Heaven and Earth, Hyg. Fab. praef.; of the first Venus, Cic. N. D. 3, 23, 59.

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