Note 6 — CICERO AGAINST CATILINE

: caedem—Novembres: “that you had fixed the 28th October for the slaughter of the nobles.” The construction is in diem quintum ante Kalendas Novembres. Predetermination of future time is often expressed by in with acc.: as in diem posterum senatum convocavit, not “he summoned the Senate on the next day,” but “for the next day.”