• year: annus:
Romulus fixed that there should be ten months in his y., Romulus in anno constituit menses quinque bis esse suo,
Ov. F. 1, 27:
no one is so old that he does not think he may live a y., nemo est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere:
Cic. Sen. 7, 24:
at the beginning of the y., anno incipiente, ineunte; anni principio, exordio, initio:
Cic.:
Liv.:
at the end of the y., anno exeunte, desinente, expleto, circumacto.
Cic.:
Liv. Some cases of annus are used adverbially, without or with a
prep. (i.) Anno:
last y. I bought that for four minae, quatuor minis emi istanc anno, Pl. Men. 1, 3, 22:
who have not now held a senate for almost a y., qui anno jam prope senatum non habuerint,
Liv. 3, 39, fin.:
twice a y., bis anno:
Plin.:
he died the y. before I was censor, anno ante me censorem mortuus est,
Cic.:
Cic. adds
in with numerals:
thrice a y., ter in anno, Rosc. Am. 46, 132. (ii.) Annum:
for a whole y. the matrons mourned him, annum matronae luxerunt eum,
Liv. 2, 7:
a y. hence, ad annum,
Cic.:
for a y.: in annum:
the command was prolonged for a y., prorogatum in a. imperium est,
Liv. 37, 2: of time past or future:
it was done sixteen y.s ago, abhinc annos factumst sedecim, Pl.:
fifteen y.s after, annum post quintum decimum,
Liv. The y. before, annus superior, proximus:
the y. after, annus sequens, posterus,
Cic.:
Liv.:
it is a hundred and ten y.s since the law was passed, centum et decem anni sunt quum lata lex est,
Cic. Off. 2, 21, 75. In speaking of age:
he is twenty y.s old, viginti annos natus est, habet,
Cic.:
I am more than twenty y.s old, plus annis viginti natus sum, Pl.:
thus died Galba, being seventy-three y.s old, hunc exitum habuit Galba tribus et septuaginta annis,
Tac. H. 1, 49:
when, being eighty y.s old he had gone to Egypt, quum annorum octoginta in Aegyptum ivisset,
Nep. Ages. 8:
I am in my eighty-fourth y., quartum annum ago et octogesimum,
Cic. Sen. 10, 32. Phr
.:
a half y.: semestre spatium,
Plin.:
you will see that that reign could hardly last half a y., intelliges id regnum vix semestre esse posse,
Cic. Att. 10, 8, 7:
two y.s, three y.s, etc.: biennium, triennium, etc.
he lived five y.s longer: vixit quinquennium postea,
Cic.:
well stricken in y.s, aetate provectus,
Cic.:
I at your y.s did not think of love, ego istuc aetatis non amori operam dabam,
Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 48:
to wish any one a happy new y., *in novum annum laeta optare alicui et ominari (
cf. Plin. Ep. 4, 15, 5):
I had nearly served out my y., annuum tempus prope jam emeritum habebamus,
Cic. Att. 6, 5, 3:
you have a full y.'s pay, give a full y.'s work, annua aera habes, annuam operam ede,
Liv. 5, 4:
I saw that youth every y., Meliboeus, illum vidi juvenem Meliboee quotannis,
Virg. E. 1, 43.