χθές: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Adv. (lengthd. ἐχθές (q.v.); where the word occurs in <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[NT]], Ev.Jo.4.52, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Act.Ap.</span>7.28</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ep.Hebr.</span>13.8</span>, codd. vary betw. [[ἐχθές]] and <b class="b3">χθές; χθές</b> is not found in Ptolemaic papyri, but in <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PLond.</span>2.161.8</span> (iii A. D.)):—[[yesterday]], h.Merc.273, <span class="bibl">Th.3.113</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>327a</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Smp.</span>174a</span>, etc.: freq. placed between Art. and Subst., <b class="b3">ἡ χ. ὁμολογία, οἱ χ. λόγοι</b>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Sph.</span>216a</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ti.</span>26e</span>; τῇ χ. ἡμέρᾳ Plu.2.773e; <b class="b3">χ. μὲν... τὰ νῦν δὲ</b> . . <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span>17a</span>: freq. <b class="b3">πρώην τε καὶ χ., χ. καὶ πρώην</b>, v. [[πρώην]] ''ΙΙ''; <b class="b3">χ. καὶ τρίτην ἡμέραν</b> [[varia lectio|v.l.]] in <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>6.3.11</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ge.</span>31.2</span>. (Cf. Skt. [[hyás]] 'yesterday', Lat. [[heri]], [[hesternus]], OHG. [[gestaron]] 'yesterday', etc.)</span>