(adverb) : hĕri or hĕre (in here neque e plane neque i auditur, Quint. 1, 4, 7:
* Here nunc e littera terminamus: at veterum comicorum adhuc libris invenio: Heri ad me venit, quod idem in epistulis Augusti, quas sua manu scripsit aut emendavit, deprehenditur,id. 1, 7, 22; cf. Charis. p. 180 P.; Prisc. p. 1011 ib.; v. esp. Neue, Formenl. 2, p. 685), for hesi; cf. hes in hesternus; v. the letter R; kindred with Sanscr. hyas; Goth. gis-tra; Germ. gestern; Engl. yesterday; Gr. χθές, orig. χες, yesterday.
* Lit.
* Form heri (perh. only so in Cic.): Septembris heri Calendae, hodie ater dies, Afran. ap. Non. 73, 33; cf.: hoc heri effecit: hodie autem, etc.,Cic. Att. 10, 13, 1 (al. here): ubi est hodie, quae Lyra fulsit heri?Ov. F. 2, 76: heri jam edixeram omnibus,Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 15: quemne ego heri vidi ad vos afferri vesperi?Ter. And. 4, 4, 29: heri vesperi apud me Hirtius fuit,Cic. Fam. 11, 1, 1: heri vesperi,id. Att. 13, 47, 2; 15, 11, 4: ut heri dicebam,id. Rep. 3, 31 fin.; cf.: cum heri ipsi dixeris, te, etc.,id. ib. 3, 21: heri,Ter. And. 1, 1, 58; id. Eun. 1, 2, 3; 89; id. Heaut. 3, 2, 8; id. Hec. 1, 2, 115; id. Phorm. 1, 1, 2; Afran. ap. Charis. p. 180 et saep.
* Transf., of time just past, a short time ago, lately (very rare): Papias leges heri Severus exclusit,Tert. Apol. 4; Dig. 47, 10, 7, § 2: sordebant tibi villicae, Concubine, hodie atque heri, Nunc, etc., but a short time ago, the other day (an imitation of the Gr. χθὲς καὶ πρώην), Cat. 61, 133; Prop. 3, 15, 1.

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