“initium, et consummationem, et medietatem temporum, vicissitudinum permutationes, et commutationes temporum,”
“The beginning, ending, and midst of the times: the alterations of the turning of the sun, and the change of seasons:”
“The beginning and end and middle of times, The alternations of the solstices and the changes of seasons,”
Times. Or “things.” (St. Ambrose, Abr. ii. 7.) — Times past, present, and future, (Origen, hom. xxi.) or the three seasons; autumn, the beginning of the civil year, summer the end, and spring or winter, the middle. (Grotius) — Their. The “seasons,” as the Greek implies, (Calmet) and the vicissitudes of heat and cold. (Menochius)