ὄρθρος, ὁ,
the time just before or about daybreak, dawn, cock-crow (ἀπ᾽ ὄρθρου μέχρι περ ἂν ἥλιος ἀνάσχῃ [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 951d), τάχα δ᾽ ὄ. ἐγίγνετο δημιοεργός “hymnus ad Mercurium” 98; ἐπειδὰν ὄ. ᾖ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 256, compare “Av.” 496, etc.; ὄρθρου ] Refs 5th c.BC+]at dawn, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 577, 4th c.BC: Sopater Comicus 25, 4th c.BC: Aristopho Comicus 10; ὄρθρου γενομένου 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.198; ἅμα ὄρθρῳ [prev. author] 7.188, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.112, etc.; ἐς ὄρθρον 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 18.56, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 6.6; κατ᾽ ὄρθρον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 772; περὶ ὄρθρον 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.101 (compare περίορθρος) ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πρὸς ὄρθρον towards dawn, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1089; πρὸς ὄρθρον γ᾽ ἐστίν [prev. author] “Ec.” 20; ὑπ᾽ ὄρθρον Batrachomyomachia 103; ὑπὸ τὸν ὄ. 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 76.17 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸν ὄ., absolutely, in the morning, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.181 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δι᾽ ὄρθρων each morning early, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 909 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὄ. βαθύς dim morning twilight, ἀλλὰ νῦν ὄ. β. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 216, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Crito” 43a, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 18.14; τῆς παρελθούσης νυκτὸς.., ἔτι βαθέος ὄ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 310a, cf. NT.Luke.24.1. ] NT+5th c.BC+]
__II Ὄρθρος, ὁ, a mythical dog, son of Typhaon and Echidna, that kept the herds of Geryoneus on the island Erytheia, and was there killed by Heracles, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 309, compare 293 (variant{Ὄρθος}). ] Refs 8th c.BC+]