I.of yesterday, yesterday's: “disputatio hesterni et hodierni diei,” Cic. de Or. 3, 21, 81; cf.: “hesterno die,” id. N. D. 2, 29, 73: “hesterno sermone,” id. Rep. 3, 12 fin.: “die,” id. Cat. 2, 3, 6: nocte Ov. H. 19, 72: “sermone,” Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 18: “disputatione,” id. Tusc. 2, 4, 10: “panis,” Cels. 1, 3: “reliquiae,” of yesterday, Plaut. Pers. 1, 2, 25: “jus,” Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 17: “cena,” Plin. Pan. 6, 3, 3; Juv. 9, 44: “minutal,” id. 14, 129: “fercula,” Hor. S. 2, 6, 105: “vitia,” id. ib. 2, 2, 78: ex potatione, Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 66; cf.: “Iaccho (i. e. vino),” Verg. E. 6, 15: “mero,” Just. 24, 8: “corollae,” Prop. 2, 34 (3, 32), 59: “crines,” i. e. not yet arranged, id. 1, 15, 5; so, “coma,” Ov. A. A. 3, 154: “Lar,” to whom sacrifice was made yesterday, Verg. A. 8, 542 Serv.: “ignes suscitat,” Ov. M. 8, 643.—Facete: Quirites, Romans of yesterday, i. e. slaves recently made free, Pers. 3, 106.—Absol.: “hesternorum immemores, acta pueritiae recordari,” Quint. 11, 2, 6.—In the abl. adverb., hesterno (sc. die), yesterday, Sisenn. ap. Charis. p. 180 P.; Aus. Epigr. 74, 1; Sulpic. Sev. Dial. 3, 1, 1; 3, 5, 1.
hesternus , a, um, adj. hes, whence heri, analog. with hodiernus,