hesternus, a, um, adj. [hes, whence heri, analog. with hodiernus],
of yesterday , yesterday's : disputatio hesterni et hodierni diei, Cic. de Or. 3, 21, 81; cf.: hesterno die, id. N. D. 2, 29, 73: hesterno sermone, id. Rep. 3, 12 fin. : die, id. Cat. 2, 3, 6: nocte Ov. H. 19, 72: sermone, Cic. Ac. 2 ( Luc. ), 6, 18: disputatione, id. Tusc. 2, 4, 10: panis, Cels. 1, 3: reliquiae, of yesterday , Plaut. Pers. 1, 2, 25: jus, Ter. Eun. 939: cena, Plin. Pan. 6, 3, 3; Juv. 9, 44: minutal, id. 14, 129: fercula, Hor. S. 2, 6, 105: vitia, id. ib. 2, 2, 78: ex potatione, Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 66; cf.: Iaccho (i. e. vino), Verg. E. 6, 15: mero, Just. 24, 8: corollae, Prop. 2, 34 (3, 32), 59: crines, i. e. not yet arranged , id. 1, 15, 5; so, coma, Ov. A. A. 3, 154: Lar, to whom sacrifice was made yesterday , Verg. A. 8, 542 Serv.: ignes suscitat, Ov. M. 8, 643.—Facete: Quirites, Romans of yesterday , i. e. slaves recently made free , Pers. 3, 106.— Absol. : hesternorum immemores, acta pueritiae recordari, Quint. 11, 2, 6.—In the abl. adverb., hesterno (sc. die), yesterday , Sisenn. ap. Charis. p. 180 P.; Aus. Epigr. 74, 1; Sulpic. Sev. Dial. 3, 1, 1; 3, 5, 1.