cras

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

crās, adv. [root ka-, ku-, to lighten, burn; Gr. καίω; cf. Sanscr. cvas, the same],

I to-morrow , αὔριον (freq. and class.).

α With tempp. fut. : rus cras cum filio Cum primo luci ibo hinc, Ter. Ad. 840: scies fortasse cras, summum perendie, Cic. Att. 12, 44, 3: cras donaberis haedo, Hor. C. 3, 13, 3: Qui non est hodie, cras minus aptus erit, Ov. R. Am. 94 et saep.—With ellipsis of verb: negat Eros hodie: cras mane putat (sc. venturum esse), early to-morrow morning , Cic. Att. 10, 30, 2.—

β With temp. pres. : sat habeo, si cras fero, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 121; Ter. Phorm. 530: cras est mihi Judicium, id. Eun. 337; Atta ap. Non. p. 468, 24:. cras nato Caesare festus dat veniam somnumque dies, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 9 al.—As the title of a writing of Varro: Cras credo, hodie nihil, of which there are some fragments ap. Non. p. 112, 9 al.—

γ Subst.: cras istud quando venit? Mart. 5, 58, 2 sqq.; so, hesternum, Pers. 5, 68.—*

B = in diem crastinum, on or for the morrow : cras te non vocavi, Mart. 2, 37, 11.—

II Poet., in gen., the future, hereafter : quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere, Hor. C. 1, 9, 13: credula vitam Spes fovet et melius cras fore semper ait, Tib. 2, 6, 20; Ov. M. 15, 216 al.

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