Kitap 10
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The final syllable of that word I find written sometimes with e and sometimes with i; for it was usual with those men of olden times very often to use those letters without distinction, saying praefiscine and praefiscini, proclivi and proclive, and using many other words of that kind with either ending; in the same way too they said die pristini, that is, the day before, which is commonly expressed by pridie, changing the order of the words in the compound, as if it were pristino die. Also by a similar usage they said die crastini, meaning crastino die or to-morrow. The priests of the Roman people, too, when they make a proclamation for the third day, say diem perendini. But just as very many people said die pristini, so Marcus Cato in his oration Against Furius xix. 7, Jordan. said die proximi or the next day; and Gnaeus Matius, an exceedingly learned man, in his Mimiambi, instead of our nudius tertius, or four days ago, has die quarto, in these lines: Fr. 11, Bahrens. Of late, four days ago (die quarto), as I recall, The only pitcher in the house he broke.
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Therefore the distinction will be found to be, that we use die quarto of the past, but diequarte of the future.
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The names of certain weapons, darts and swords, and also of boats and ships, which are found in the books of the early writers.
