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(adverb) : prīdĭē, from the obsol. pri (whence prior, primus, pridem) and dies.
* Lit., on the day before (class.; opp. postridie).— Constr. absol., with acc. of the day from which the reckoning was made, or with quam (class.); also, with gen. (class. only in the phrase pridie ejus diei).
* Absol., Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 65: cui cum pridie frequentes essetis assensi, postridie ad spem estis inanem pacis devoluti,Cic. Phil. 7, 4, 14: postero die tropaeum posuit, quo loco pridie pugnatum est,Nep. Dat. 8, 3: pridie asservata materia,Plin. 18, 11, 26, § 104.
* Transf., the phrase pridie Kalendas (Nonas, etc.) is used as a subst.: nos in Formiano esse volumus usque ad pridie Nonas Maias,Cic. Att. 2, 11, 2: ex ante diem III. Non. Jun. usque ad prid. Kal. Sept.,id. ib. 3, 17, 1: gignit id maxime arcturi exortus ex a. d. pridie Idus Septembris,Plin. 11, 16, 15, § 41; cf.: EX. A. D. V. KAL. DEC. AD PR. KAL. JAN. SEXT., for six years, to the 31st December, Inscr. Orell. 594: litterarum datarum pridie Kal. Januar. suavem habuit recordationem clarissimi jurisjurandi, the 31st of December, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 22.—With an acc., not designating a day: quod uxorem pridie sortitionem ductam postridie repudiasset,Suet. Tib. 35 fin. Roth (Oud. sortitione).
* With gen.: pridie ejus diei,on the day before this day, the day before,Caes. B. G. 1, 47: insidiarum,the day before the ambush,Tac. A. 15, 54: Kalendarum,Dig. 28, 1, 5.
* With acc., designating the day (v. Madvig. § 230, obs. 1): pridie Idus,Cic. Att. 13, 25, 2: Compitalia,id. ib. 2, 3, 3: Quinquatrus,id. ib. 9, 13, 2: eum diem,id. ib. 11, 23, 2: Parilia,Liv. 40, 2: Circenses,Suet. Calig. 55: constitutam diem,Just. 1, 10, 7: nuptiarum diem, Fest. s. v. Regillis, p. 286 Müll.: vindemias,Dig. 24, 3, 7: aequinoctium autumnale,ib. 43, 19, 1.
* In gen., before, a short time before (post-class.), Dig. 40, 5, 10 fin.; Vell. 2, 83, 3: Psyche, non ita, ut pridie, parvula,App. M. 5, p. 165.
* Lit., on the day before (class.; opp. postridie).— Constr. absol., with acc. of the day from which the reckoning was made, or with quam (class.); also, with gen. (class. only in the phrase pridie ejus diei).
* Absol., Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 65: cui cum pridie frequentes essetis assensi, postridie ad spem estis inanem pacis devoluti,Cic. Phil. 7, 4, 14: postero die tropaeum posuit, quo loco pridie pugnatum est,Nep. Dat. 8, 3: pridie asservata materia,Plin. 18, 11, 26, § 104.
* Transf., the phrase pridie Kalendas (Nonas, etc.) is used as a subst.: nos in Formiano esse volumus usque ad pridie Nonas Maias,Cic. Att. 2, 11, 2: ex ante diem III. Non. Jun. usque ad prid. Kal. Sept.,id. ib. 3, 17, 1: gignit id maxime arcturi exortus ex a. d. pridie Idus Septembris,Plin. 11, 16, 15, § 41; cf.: EX. A. D. V. KAL. DEC. AD PR. KAL. JAN. SEXT., for six years, to the 31st December, Inscr. Orell. 594: litterarum datarum pridie Kal. Januar. suavem habuit recordationem clarissimi jurisjurandi, the 31st of December, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 22.—With an acc., not designating a day: quod uxorem pridie sortitionem ductam postridie repudiasset,Suet. Tib. 35 fin. Roth (Oud. sortitione).
* With gen.: pridie ejus diei,on the day before this day, the day before,Caes. B. G. 1, 47: insidiarum,the day before the ambush,Tac. A. 15, 54: Kalendarum,Dig. 28, 1, 5.
* With acc., designating the day (v. Madvig. § 230, obs. 1): pridie Idus,Cic. Att. 13, 25, 2: Compitalia,id. ib. 2, 3, 3: Quinquatrus,id. ib. 9, 13, 2: eum diem,id. ib. 11, 23, 2: Parilia,Liv. 40, 2: Circenses,Suet. Calig. 55: constitutam diem,Just. 1, 10, 7: nuptiarum diem, Fest. s. v. Regillis, p. 286 Müll.: vindemias,Dig. 24, 3, 7: aequinoctium autumnale,ib. 43, 19, 1.
* In gen., before, a short time before (post-class.), Dig. 40, 5, 10 fin.; Vell. 2, 83, 3: Psyche, non ita, ut pridie, parvula,App. M. 5, p. 165.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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