I.of or belonging to the morning, morning- (class.): “tempora,” the morning hours, Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 1: “frigora,” Hor. S. 2, 6, 45: “dies,” the morning, Col. 6, 2, 3: “equi, i. e. Aurorae,” Ov. F. 5, 160: “radii,” the morning sun, id. M. 1, 62: “somni,” Mart. 14, 125, 1: “harena,” i. e. the morning-hunt in the Circus, Ov. M. 11, 26: “cliens,” who comes early in the morning, Mart. 12, 68, 1: “Juppiter,” who is saluted early in the morning, id. 4, 8, 12: “Aeneas se matutinus agebat,” was up early, Verg. A. 8, 465: pater, i. e. Janus, who (as the god of time) was invoked early in the morning, that he might promote business, Hor. S. 2, 6, 20: “ter matutino Tiberi mergetur,” Juv. 6, 523: “matutino sudans amomo,” id. 4, 108.—
II. Transf.: “frons,” i. e. sober, serious, Mart. 13, 2, 10.— Subst.: mātūtīnum , i, n., the morning, morning-, Plin. 20, 9, 33, § 80: “serere matutinis, meridie metere,” id. 4, 12, 26, § 90.— Hence, adv., in two forms.
