νύξ, νυκτός, ἡ,
night: either generally, mght-season (opposed to day), or a night, ν. ἀμβροσίη [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.363; ν. ἄμβροτος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.330 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; but ν. ὀλοή[[ [prev. work] 19, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.567, compare below 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], III; νυκτός by night, as adverb, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.278, etc.; οὔτε ν. οὔτ᾽ ἐξ ἡμέρας 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 780 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; νυκτὸς ἔτι while it was still night, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.10; also τῆς νυκτός 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 78.3, 148; ν. τῆσδε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 21 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄκρας ν. at dead of night, [[[prev. work] 285 (but ἄκρῃ νυκτί at ] Refs]night-fall, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 775, ἀκρόθι νυκτός] Refs 4th c.BC+] on the verge of dawn, [[ [prev. author] 308) ] Refs]; ἀωρὶ νυκτός, τῶν νυκτῶν, see at {ἀωρί}: in plural, τῶν νυκτῶν at nights, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 668: rarely, νυκτί 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.12; ν. τῇδε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 644 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; νύκτα the night long, νύκτα φυλάσσειν to watch the night through, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.312, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.466: _plural_, νύκτας ἰαύειν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.325, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.154, etc.; δύω νύκτας, τρεῖς ν., [prev. work] 388, 17.515 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: in Attic dialect, ὅλην τὴν ν. [[ 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 177, 4th c.BC: Amphis Comicus 20.4; τὴν νύχθ᾽ ὅλην 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 3; τὰς νύκτας 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 32.14; ὅλας γε καὶ πάσας τὰς ν. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.54; νύκτας τε καὶ ἦμαρ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.490; νύκτας τε καὶ ἡμέρας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 151a; οὔτε νύκτ᾽ οὔθ᾽ ἡμέραν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 187; τὴν νύχθ᾽ ὅλην τήν θ᾽ ἡμέραν 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 53.1 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; νύκτα ἡμέραν ποιούμενος ἀπόστειλον (κατάπεμψον), i. e. without delay, [[ “PCair.Zen.” 314.7, “PSI” 5.514.3 (both 3rd c.BC) ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; μέσαι νύκτες midnight, [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 52, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 621b; περὶ μ. νύκτας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.8.12; ἐν μέσῳ νυκτῶν [prev. author] “Cyr.” 5.3.52; πρωΐτερον μέσων νυκτῶν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.101; ἔξω μέσων ν. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 54.26. ] Refs 7th c.BC+]