DATE Copy link • DATE 1. dies. Without data, sine die et consule (after Roman custom); *sine die. His third letter bears data the 12th of November, tertia est epistola prid. Id. Novemb. data (Cic.). Your letters were of an earlier data than Caes.’s, antiquior dies in tuis ascripta litteris, quam in Caesaris. End; Vid: Duration; Vid: To grow out of date, obsolescere: out of data, obsoletus; desuetus. The fruit of the palm-tree, palmula; palmae pomum. The tree itself, palma (*phoenix dactylifera, Linn.): a data grove, palmetum. Data wine, vinum palmeum :”Date,” as adjective palmeus. 2. v. To date a letter, diem in epistola ascribere: to neglect to date it, diem in epistola non ascribere: the third letter is dated November 12, tertia est epistola prid. Id. Novemb. data (Cic., Att., 3, 23, 1, 5): not dated, sine die et consule (since the ancients reckoned by consuls; Ulp., Dig., 2, 13, 1, § 1). OBS. In a wider sense, “to date” may be translated by dare, scribere. His letter was dated the first of January, epistola Calendis Januariis data or scripta est (after Cic.). To refer the beginning or origin of anything to anything or anybody, repetere initia alicujus rei ex aliqua, re (Cic., Fam., 6, 16). To date anything too far back, aliquid longius repetere: further back than is necessary, aliquid longius repetere, quam res postulat. 3. INTR., initium capere: incipere: coepisse: anything will date from to-day, hodiernus dies initium alicujus rei erit (Tac., Agric., 30): anything dates from such a time or event, duco initia alicujus rei ex aliqua re: fables do not date from aesop, fabulas originem non ab aesopo accipiunt (Quint.).