dies

Latin noun

Last edited: 2024-11-03
Primary meaning day
Literal translation day
Variants
dies
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day unit of time

Horae sunt quas perdimus. Puta dies esse, puta menses, puta annos; perdimus illos nempe perituros.

‘They are only hours which we lose. Suppose it is a matter of days, months, years; we lose only what is going to be lost anyway.’

— Seneca, Natural Questions 6.32.10

Genre: philosophy
Date: 62/63 CE

Seneca. Natural Questions, Volume II: Books 4-7. Translated by Thomas H. Corcoran. Loeb Classical Library 457. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. 220-221

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). dies (Lemma #1857). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1857/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). dies (Lemma #1857). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1857/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). dies (Lemma #1857). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1857/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) dies (Lemma #1857), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1857/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1857,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {dies ({Lemma} #1857)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1857/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1857/},
}