Note 74 — Chapter VI
Reading edition
Perhaps the proper Prep. in these phrases is de, not do—see the Prepositions in the next Chap.—as we find the same Prep. similarly applied in other languages; de nuit by night, John iii. 2; de nocte, Hor. Epis. 1. 2, 32; de tertia vigilia, Cæs. B. G.