δείλη, ἡ,
afternoon (δ. ἡμέρας τελευτή [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Definitiones” 411b), ἔσσεται ἢ ἠὼς ἢ δείλη ἢ μέσον ἦμαρ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.111 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: divided into early and late (πρωΐα and ὀψία), περὶ δείλην πρωΐην γενομένην [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.6 (opposed to δ. ὀψίην, [prev. work] 9); δείλης ὀψίης [prev. author] 7.167, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 57.9; περὶ δείλην ἤδη ὀψίαν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.26; later περὶ δ. ἑσπέραν 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.533, 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 3.12.7. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II δ. alone,
__II.1 early afternoon, δείλῃ δὲ τέμνεται ὀπώρα [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 255; ἤδη ἦν μέσον ἡμέρας.., ἡνίκα δὲ δείλη ἐγένετο 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.8.8; ἀμφὶ δείλην [prev. work] 2.2.14 (opposed to ὀψέ, [prev. work] 16); περὶ δείλην 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.101, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.69, 103 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀπὸ δείλης from the hour of afternoon, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 564a19; τῆς δείλης ] Refs 4th c.BC+]in the course of the afternoon, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.3.10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but also,
__II.1.b late afternoon, τῆς ἡμέρας ὅλης διῆλθον.. ἀλλὰ δείλης ἀφίκοντο [[[prev. work] 3.3.11; ἡνίκα ἦν δ., opposed to τῆς νυκτός, [prev. work] 3.4.34, compare 4.2.1, 7.2.16 ] Refs]; μέχρι δείλης ἐξ ἑωθινοῦ [[ [prev. author] “HG” 1.1.5, compare 4.1.22; ἀπ᾽ ἠοῦς μέχρι δείλης 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Definitiones” 411a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἕωθεν καὶ δείλης early in the morning and late in the evening, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 531; πρὸς τὴν δείλην [prev. author] “HA” 596a23 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; δείλαν alone, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 10.5. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]