δυσμή, ἡ,
(δύω) ={δύσις}, setting, mostly in plural, ἀελίου δ. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1245, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 69, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 7.5, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 61e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ δυσμῇσιν ἐών at the point of setting, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.104; περὶ ἡλίου δυσμάς 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.39; ἥλιος ἦν ἤδη περὶ δυσμάς “Hellenica Oxyrhynchia” 15.5: _metaphorically_, τὸ γῆρας δυσμαὶ βίου 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1457b25, compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.79, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.678, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 9.90, 2nd c.AD: Diogenes Oenoandensis Epicureus 2, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II the quarter of sunset, west, ἀπὸ ἑσπέρης τε καὶ [ἡλίου] δυσμέων [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.31; πρὸς ἡλίου δυσμέων [prev. author] 7.115, compare 2.33; πρὸς δυσμαῖς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 232 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ἀνατολαί, [[ “BGU” 1049.8 (4th c.AD)] Refs 4th c.AD+]:—also δυθμή, [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Cererem” 10 (_plural_), “fragment” 539 (_sing._). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]