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When the action is not complete, as here, the Latin form is at once more lively and more exact than the English. Proximo anno. This same expression may signify either the next year, or the last year. Here of course: the last year, referring to the battle described in 26, cf. also note 29: Initio aestatis. Furto noctis. Cf. Virg. Aen. 9, 397: fraude noctis. Contra ruere.
Occasionally the services began with a Sapphic ode by Gregory the Great, whose opening line, Ecce iam noctis tenuatur umbra, set to music from the Salisbury Hymnal, resounded through the arches of the chapel like a call to the duties of the day.
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