"_ 45, 'Nobis tam longae absentiae condicione ante quadriennium amissus est.'"
"Thus: -- post quīnque annōs, _five years afterward_; paucōs ante diēs, _a few days before_; ante quadriennium, _four years before_; post diem quārtum quam ab urbe discesserāmus, _four days after we had left the city_; ante tertium annum quam dēcesserat, _three years before he had died_."
"Imminens Coloniae fatum et consilio et manu per quadriennium sustinuit"