Pridie, Aduerbium. Cic.On the day before.Pridie & postridie, contraria.Cic.Ibi esse vfque ad pridic Calend. Maias volo. Cice. I wil be there till the last day of Aprill.A pridie Idus Septembres gignitur. Plin. Vide A præpositionem. Illam sententiam Bibuli pridie eius diei fregeramus.Cic.The day before.Pridie eius diei venit.Cic.He came the day before. Pridie Nonas Iunias quum essem Brundusij.Cic.The vi. day of June.Pridie qum occideretur. Sueton. The daye before hee was slayne.Pridie qum accessit è vita.Cic.The day before he dyed.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
prīdĭē, adv. [from the obsol. pri (whence prior, primus, pridem) and dies]. I.Lit., on the day before (class.; opp. postridie).— Constr. absol., with acc. of the day from which the reckoning was made, or with quam (class.); also, with gen. (class. only in the phrase pridie ejus diei). (a).Absol., Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 65: cui cum pridie frequentes essetis assensi, postridie ad spem estis inanem pacis devoluti, Cic. Phil. 7, 4, 14: postero die tropaeum posuit, quo loco pridie pugnatum est, Nep. Dat. 8, 3: pridie asservata materia, Plin. 18, 11, 26, 104.— (b). With quam: si hic pridie natus foret, quam hic est, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 91: pridie quam ego Athenas veni, Cic. Att. 5, 11, 6: haec epistula est pridie data quam illa, id. ib. 3, 8, 2.—(g). With gen.: pridie ejus diei,
on the day before this day
,
the day before
, Caes. B. G. 1, 47: insidiarum,
the day before the ambush
, Tac. A. 15, 54: Kalendarum, Dig. 28, 1, 5.—(d). With acc., designating the day (v. Madvig. 230, obs. 1): pridie Idus, Cic. Att. 13, 25, 2: Compitalia, id. ib. 2, 3, 3: Quinquatrus, id. ib. 9, 13, 2: eum diem, id. ib. 11, 23, 2: Parilia, Liv. 40, 2: Circenses, Suet. Calig. 55: constitutam diem, Just. 1, 10, 7: nuptiarum diem, Fest. s. v. Regillis, p. 286 Müll.: vindemias, Dig. 24, 3, 7: aequinoctium autumnale, ib. 43, 19, 1.—II.Transf., the phrase pridie Kalendas (Nonas, etc.) is used as a subst.: nos in Formiano esse volumus usque ad pridie Nonas Maias, Cic. Att. 2, 11, 2: ex ante diem III. Non. Jun. usque ad prid. Kal. Sept., id. ib. 3, 17, 1: gignit id maxime arcturi exortus ex a. d. pridie Idus Septembris, Plin. 11, 16, 15, 41; cf.: EX. A. D. V. KAL. DEC. AD PR. KAL. JAN. SEXT., for six years, to the 31st December, Inscr. Orell. 594: litterarum datarum pridie Kal. Januar. suavem habuit recordationem clarissimi jurisjurandi, the 31st of December, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 22.—With an acc., not designating a day: quod uxorem pridie sortitionem ductam postridie repudiasset, Suet. Tib. 35 fin. Roth (Oud. sortitione).—B. In gen., before, a short time before (post-class.), Dig. 40, 5, 10 fin.; Vell. 2, 83, 3: Psyche, non ita, ut pridie, parvula, App. M. 5, p. 165.