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|lshtext=<b>dĭes</b>: (dīes, Liv. Andron. Fragm. Odys. 7), ēi ([etilde]ī, Verg. A. 4, 156; Hor. S. 1, 8, 35 et saep.;<br /><b>I</b> 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]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen., the [[civil]] [[day]] of [[twenty]]-[[four]] hours.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Masc.: [[dies]] [[primus]] est veris in Aquario ... [[dies]] [[tertius]] ... [[dies]] civiles nostros, etc., Varr. R. R. 1, 28, 1; cf. Plin. 2, 77, 79, § 188; Macr. S. 1, 3; Gell. 3, 2: REBVS IVRE IVDICATIS TRIGINTA DIES IVSTI SVNTO, XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 45; and 15, 13 fin.; for [[which]]; per [[dies]] continuos XXX., etc., Gai. Inst. 3, 78: [[multa]] [[dies]] in [[bello]] conficit [[unus]], Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 297 ed. Vahl.); cf.: non uno absolvam [[die]], Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 73: hic [[dies]], id. Aul. 4, 9, 11: hic [[ille]] est [[dies]], id. Capt. 3, 3, 3: [[ante]] hunc diem, id. ib. 3, 4, 101: [[illo]] [[die]] [[impransus]] fui, id. Am. 1, 1, 98; cf.: eo [[die]], Caes. B. G. 1, 22 fin.; 2, 6; 2, 32 fin.; 4, 11, 4; 5, 15 fin. et saep.: [[postero]] [[die]], id. ib. 1, 15, 1; 3, 6, 3 et saep.; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 17; Sall. J. 29, 5; 38, 9 et saep.: in posterum diem, Caes. B. G. 7, 41 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 65 fin. et saep.: diem scito esse nullum, quo [[die]] non dicam pro reo, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 3: domi sedet totos [[dies]], Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 34: paucos [[dies]] ibi morati, Caes. B. G. 7, 5, 4: [[dies]] continuos XXX. sub [[bruma]] esse noctem, id. ib. 5, 13, 3: hosce [[aliquot]] [[dies]], Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 4; cf. id. Eun. 1, 2, 71 et saep.: festo [[die]] si [[quid]] prodegeris, Plaut. Aul. 2, 8, 10; so, [[festus]], id. Cas. 1, 49; id. Poen. 3, 5, 13; 4, 2, 26 et saep.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Fem. (freq. in [[poetry]] metri gratiā; [[rare]] in [[prose]]), postrema, Enn. ap. Gell. 9, 14: omnia ademit Una [[dies]], Lucr. 3, 912; cf. id. 3, 921; 5, 96 and 998: homines, qui ex media nocte ad proximam mediam noctem in his horis XXIV. nati sunt, una [[die]] nati dicuntur, Varr. ap. Gell. 3, 2, 2 (uno [[die]], Macr. S. 1, 3): quibus effectis armatisque diebus XXX., a [[qua]] [[die]] [[materia]] [[caesa]] est, Caes. B. C. 1, 36 fin.: Varronem profiteri, se altera [[die]] ad [[colloquium]] venturum, id. ib. 3, 19, 4 (for [[which]], [[shortly]] [[before]]: quo cum esset [[postero]] [[die]] ventum); cf.: postera [[die]], Sall. J. 68, 2 (for [[which]], in the [[same]] [[author]], [[more]] freq.: [[postero]] [[die]]): pulchra, Hor. Od. 1, 36, 10: suprema, id. ib. 1, 13, 20: atra, Verg. A. 6, 429: tarda, Ov. M. 15, 868 et saep.—(But Caes. B. C. 3, 26, 1; 3, 37, 1, [[read]] altero, [[tertio]].)—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Connections: [[postridie]] ejus diei, a favorite [[expression]] of [[Caesar]], Caes. B. G. 1, 23, 1: 1, 47, 2; 1, 48, 2 et saep., v. [[postridie]]; and cf.: [[post]] diem [[tertium]] ejus diei, Cic. Att. 3, 7; Sulpic. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 2; Liv. 27, 35: diem ex [[die]] exspectabam, from [[day]] to [[day]], id. ib. 7, 26 fin.; cf.: diem ex [[die]] ducere, Caes. B. G. 1, 16, 5; for [[which]] also: diem de [[die]] prospectans, Liv. 5, 48; and: diem de [[die]] differre, id. 25, 25: LIBRAS FARRIS ENDO DIES DATO, for [[every]] [[day]], [[day]] by [[day]], [[daily]], XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 45; cf.: [[affatim]] est hominum, in [[dies]] qui singulas escas edunt, Plaut. Men. 3, 1, 10; so, in [[dies]], [[every]] [[day]], Cic. Top. 16, 62; Caes. B. G. 3, 23, 7; 5, 58, 1; 7, 30, 4; Vell. 2, 52, 2; Liv. 21, 11 Drak.; 34, 11 al.; [[less]] freq. in sing.: [[nihil]] [[usquam]] sui videt: in diem [[rapto]] vivit, Liv. 22, 39; cf.: mutabilibus in diem causis (opp. [[natura]] perpetua), id. 31, 29 (in [[another]] signif.<br /> v. the foll., no. II. A. 3); and: cui [[licet]] in diem ( = singulis diebus, [[daily]]) dixisse Vixi, etc., Hor. Od. 3, 29, 42. And [[still]] [[more]] [[rarely]]: ad diem, Treb. Gallien. 17; Vop. Firm. 4: [[ante]] diem, v. [[ante]].—Die = [[quotidie]] or in diem, [[daily]], Verg. E. 2, 42; 3, 34: quos [[mille]] [[die]] [[victor]] sub Tartara misi, id. A. 11, 397: paucissimos [[die]] composuisse [[versus]], Quint. 10, 3, 8: saepius [[die]], Plin. 15, 6, 6, § 22: [[die]] crastini, noni, pristini, quinti, for [[die]] crastino, [[nono]], etc., v. h. vv. [[crastinus]], [[nonus]], etc.; and cf. Gell. 10, 24; Macr. S. 1, 4.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[set]] [[day]], appointed [[time]], [[term]] in the widest [[sense]] of the [[word]] (for appearing [[before]] [[court]], in the [[army]], [[making]] a [[payment]], etc.).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Fem. (so [[commonly]] in this [[sense]] in [[class]]. [[prose]], [[but]] [[only]] in sing., v. Mützell ad Curt. 3, 1, 8): ut [[quasi]] [[dies]] si dicta [[sit]], Plaut. As. 5, 1, 11; so, dicta, Cic. Fam. 16, 10 fin.; cf.: edicta ad conveniendum, Liv. 41, 10 fin.: praestituta, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 140; 2, 2, 28; Ter. Ph. 3, 2, 38; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 14 fin.; id. Vatin. 15, 37; id. Tusc. 1, 39; Liv. 45, 11 et saep.; cf. constituta, Cic. Caecin. 11, 32; Caes. B. G. 1, 4, 2; 1, 8, 3: certa [[eius]] rei constituta, id. B. C. 3, 33, 1: [[pacta]] et constituta, Cic. Cat. 1, 9, 24: statuta, Liv. 31, 29: stata, id. 27, 23 fin.: certa, Caes. B. G. 1, 30, 4, 5, 1, 8; id. B. C. 1, 2, 6; Nep. Chabr. 3 et saep.: annua, Cic. Fam. 7, 23; id. Att. 12, 3 fin.; cf. longa, Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 18: [[die]] caecā [[emere]], oculatā vendere, i. e. to [[buy]] on [[credit]] and [[sell]] for [[cash]], id. Ps. 1, 3, 67, v. [[caecus]], no. II. B.: haec [[dies]] [[summa]] [[hodie]] est, mea [[amica]] sitne libera, an, etc., id. Pers. 1, 1, 34: [[puto]] [[fore]] istam [[etiam]] a praecone diem, Cic. Att. 13, 3: ubi ea [[dies]] venit (preceded by tempore ejus rei constituto), Caes. B. G. 7, 3: praeterita [[die]], [[qua]] suorum auxilia exspectaverant, id. ib. 7, 77, 1; cf. id. ib. 6, 33, 4: esse in lege, [[quam]] ad diem proscriptiones fiant, Cic. Rosc. Am. 44, 128 et saep.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Both genders [[together]]: diem dicunt, [[qua]] [[die]] ad ripam Rhodani omnes conveniant: is [[dies]] erat a. d. V. Kal. Apr., etc., Caes. B. G. 1, 6 fin.; Cic. Att. 2, 11; id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 3; Liv. 34, 35 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Hence: dicere diem alicui, to [[impeach]], [[lay]] an [[accusation]] [[against]]: diem mihi, [[credo]], dixerat, Cic. Mil. 14, 36: Domitium Silano diem dixisse scimus, id. Div. in Caec. 20, 67.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dies alicujus ([[like]] the Heb. ; v. Gesen. Lex. s. h. v.).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>c</b> 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.<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen. (from no. I. A.).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[day]]'s [[journey]]: hanc regionem, dierum [[plus]] [[triginta]] in longitudinem, [[decem]] [[inter]] duo maria in latitudinem patentem, Liv. 38, 59; Just. 36, 2, 14 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic. (acc. to no. I. B. 2—[[poet]]., and in postAug. [[prose]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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]],<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The [[air]]: nigrique volumina fumi Infecere diem, Ov. M. 13, 600: [[cupio]] flatu violare diem, Claud. in Ruf. 1, 63.<br /><b>III</b> Dies personified.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> I. q. Sol, opp. [[Luna]], Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 21; coupled [[with]] Mensis and Annus, Ov. M. 2, 25.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> 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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