νυκτερ-ῐνός, ή, όν,
(νύξ) by night, nightly, φυλακή [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 2; ξύνοδοι [prev. author] “Eq.” 477; ἀείσματα 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 139; πυρετός 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 1.5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; στρατηγός (={νυκτοστράτηγος}) [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 17.1.12, “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 2930 (from Tralles); φρίξ “POxy.” 924.4 (4th c.AD) ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; ἀναχώρησις [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.128; σύλλογος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 909a, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 592b8; φέγγος 4th c.BC: Aeneas Tacticus 10.25; ν. σύσσημα [prev. author] 4.5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ν. γενέσθαι to happen by night, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 1162; -ώτατόν τι τολμᾶν ] Refs 5th c.BC+]at dead of night, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Icar.” 21. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 Astrology texts, potent by night, [[ 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 20. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 substantive, νυκτερινός, ὁ, a kind of musical composition for the flute, used in Dionysiac worship, [[ “BCH” 50.235 (Thasos, 3rd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]