At EP III iv 53-60 Ovid speaks of how a poem of his on a recent triumph has been late in being written, and will be late in reaching Rome: 'cetera certatim de magno scripta triumpho / iam pridem populi suspicor ore legi.
God's drama closed with the Last Judgment, the damnation of the damned and the beatitude of the elect.
The first example, probably written not much later than the year 1100, was designed for the Mass at the dedication of a church.
Then Logic makes the axle-tree; and Rhetoric adorns the pole with gems and the axle with flowers.
In this era, more than in any later age, the poetry of Rome, like that of Greece in its greatest eras, addressed itself to popular and national, not to individual tastes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pridem" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
