A.NT, Ev.Jo.4.52, Act.Ap.7.28, Ep.Hebr.13.8, codd. vary betw. ἐχθές and χθές; χθές is not found in Ptolemaic papyri, but in PLond.2.161.8 (iii A. D.)):—yesterday, h.Merc.273, Th.3.113, Pl.R.327a, Smp.174a, etc.: freq. placed between Art. and Subst., ἡ χ. ὁμολογία, οἱ χ. λόγοι, Pl.Sph.216a, Ti.26e; “τῇ χ. ἡμέρᾳ” Plu.2.773e; χ. μὲν . . , τὰ νῦν δὲ . . Pl.Ti.17a: freq. πρώην τε καὶ χ., χ. καὶ πρώην, v. πρώην 11; χ. καὶ τρίτην ἡμέραν v.l. in X.Cyr.6.3.11, cf. LXX Ge.31.2. (Cf. Skt. hyás 'yesterday', Lat. heri, hesternus, OHG. gestaron 'yesterday', etc.)
χθές , Adv. (lengthd. ἐχθές (q.v.); where the word occurs in
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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