1Quantum sufficit (vel suffi- 'As
ciat); quantum convenit;
3quantum velis; quantum
lubet; 'quantum sitis exi-
gat.

much as may be sufficient; 2as much as is convenient or suitable; 3as much as you please; as much as the thirst may require.

A pinch (i.e. as much
as may be con-
tained between the
thumb and two
fingers: about from
3ss to 3j.)
A handful.

To take (generally).
To take (in a solid
form, as a powder
or pill).

To take (as a

draught); to drink.

Delingere, CELS.; lambere; To take (as an

sub linguam liquare.

electuary).

catory); to chew.

Manducare; mandere, CELS.; To take (as a mastimasticare.

* Glutio (but not deglutio) is found in the smaller Latin dictionaries; in larger ones we find deglutio, vor medicis familiaris, I swallow down.-Pharmaceutical Guide.

Dare; adhibere; exhibere, To give or adminisCELS.; administrare.

In alvum ex parte inferiore To administer by the

dare; in alvum ex partibus inferioribus indere (vel

immittere, seu infundere), CELS.

ter.

rectum (as an injection or clyster).

the year.

Mensis; sesquimensis; 3bi- 'A month ; 2a month

Septimana; hebdomada; A week. hebdomas; hebdoma.

A day.

5Thurs

'Sunday; 'Monday; "Tuesday; 'Wednesday; day; "Friday; 'Saturday. 'The calends [the

* Formerly it was the custom for chemists to digest the solvend, or substance to be dissolved, in the solvent for a philosophical month, or forty days: hence arose the names of menstrual solvent or menstruum.

Hodie; hodierno die.
Heri; hesterno die.
Cras; crastino die.
Postero die, CELS.
Nudius tertius.*

Primo die, CELS.

Perendie; perendino die.

hence they occur on the fifteenth day of the months March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth of other months]. To-day. Yesterday. To-morrow. The day after.

The day before yesterday; three days

*This phrase is derived from nunc dies est tertius. We have also nudius quartus, four days ago; nudius quintus, five days ago, &c.

Proximis diebus, CELS.
Proximâ luce.
Quotidianus, CELS.; indiès;
quotidiè, CELS; omni die.

Alternis diebus, CELS.

ternâ (vel secundâ) die

quâque.

Tertiis diebus.

The following days.
The day before.
Daily, or every day.

Al

Every other day.

Every third day.

Post paucos dies; paucis A few days after.

post diebus.

'Biduum, CELS.; triduum, 'Two days; three

CELS.; quatriduum.

De die in diem.

Mane, CELS.*; aurora; tempore matutino; horâ matutinâ.

Diluculo; multo mane; primo mane; primâ luce, CELS.;

summo mane.

Crastino mane.

Tempus antemeridianum.

Meridiest, CELS.

Pomeridies; tempus post- Afternoon.

meridianum.

* Mane is a triptote, having only three cases the nom., acc., and abl. sing.; in all of which it is mane, except the ablative, in which mani is sometimes found.

The division of the day generally observed by the Romans was that into tempus antemeridianum and pomeridianum, the meridies itself being only considered as a point at which the one ended and the other commenced.