NONES • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Nones

... regard the changes and chances of mortal life as powerless to affect your virtue. Accordingly they are always asking me, and doubtless also our Scaevola here, how you bear the death of Africanus. This curiosity has been the more excited from the fact that on the Nones of this month, when we augurs met as usual in the suburban villa of Decimus Brutus for consultation, you were not present, though it had always been your habit to keep that appointment and perform that duty with ...

— Treatises on Friendship and Old Age • Marcus Tullius Cicero

... or mere earth (come!) that moves so and moans? Oh, I knew, when you loved me, my soul was in flowerage— Now the frost comes; from prime, though, I watched through to nones, Read love's litanies over—his age was not our age! No more flutes in this world for me now, ...

— The Heptalogia • Algernon Charles Swinburne