hĕri or hĕre (in here neque e plane neque i auditur, Quint. 1, 4, 7: here nunc e littera terminamus: at veterum comicorum adhuc libris invenio: Heri ad me venit, quod idem in epistulis Augusti, quas sua manu scripsit aut emendavit, deprehenditur, id. 1, 7, 22; cf. Charis. p. 180 P.; Prisc. p. 1011 ib.; v. esp. Neue, Formenl. 2, p. 685), adv. [for hesi; cf. hes in hesternus; v. the letter R; kindred with Sanscr. hyas; Goth. gis-tra; Germ. gestern; Engl. yesterday; Gr. χθές, orig. χες], yesterday.
I Lit.
α Form heri (perh. only so in Cic.): Septembris heri Calendae, hodie ater dies, Afran. ap. Non. 73, 33; cf.: hoc heri effecit: hodie autem, etc., Cic. Att. 10, 13, 1 (al. here): ubi est hodie, quae Lyra fulsit heri? Ov. F. 2, 76: heri jam edixeram omnibus, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 15: quemne ego heri vidi ad vos afferri vesperi? Ter. And. 768: heri vesperi apud me Hirtius fuit, Cic. Fam. 11, 1, 1: heri vesperi, id. Att. 13, 47, 2; 15, 11, 4: ut heri dicebam, id. Rep. 3, 31 fin. ; cf.: cum heri ipsi dixeris, te, etc., id. ib. 3, 21: heri, Ter. And. 85; id. Eun. 83; 169; id. Heaut. 519; id. Hec. 190; id. Phorm. 36; Afran. ap. Charis. p. 180 et saep.—
β Form here (a few times in Plaut., once in Cic., and after the Aug. per. most freq.): hoc here effecit, Cic. Att. 10, 13, 1: res hodie minor est, here quam fuit, ac eadem cras, etc., Juv. 3, 23: here venisti mediā nocte, Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 16; id. Truc. 2, 6, 28; id. Mil. 1, 1, 59: mihi quaerenti convivam dictus here illic De medio potare die, Hor. S. 2, 8, 2: hic here Phrixeae vellera pressit ovis, Ov. F. 3, 852: dura, anime, dura, here fortior fuisti, Gallio ap. Quint. 9, 2, 91; Mart. 1, 44, 2; 3, 12, 2; 4, 7, 5.—
II Transf., of time just past, a short time ago , lately (very rare): Papias leges heri Severus exclusit, Tert. Apol. 4; Dig. 47, 10, 7, § 2: sordebant tibi villicae, Concubine, hodie atque heri, Nunc, etc., but a short time ago , the other day (an imitation of the Gr. χθὲς καὶ πρώην), Cat. 61, 133; Prop. 3, 15, 1.