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τί δ' ἢν ῥαφανιδωθῇ πιθόμενός σοι τέφρᾳ τε τιλθῇ, ἕξει τινὰ γνώμην λέγειν τὸ μὴ εὐρύπρωκτος εἶναι; → What if he should have a radish shoved up his ass because he trusted you and then have hot ashes rip off his hair? What argument will he be able to offer to prevent himself from having a gaping-anus | but suppose he trusts in your advice and gets a radish rammed right up his arse, and his pubic hairs are burned with red-hot cinders. Will he have some reasoned argument to demonstrate he's not a loose-arsed bugger
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|lshtext=<b>nox</b>: noctis (collat. form of the abl. [[noctu]];<br /><b>I</b><br /> v. [[infra]], I.) [Sanscr. nak, naktis, [[night]]; Gr. νύξ; Germ. Nacht; Engl. [[night]]; from [[root]] naç; cf. [[neco]], [[νέκυς]]], [[night]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: [[hinc]] nox processit stellis ardentibus apta, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 343 Vahl.): ipsa [[umbra]] terrae soli officiens noctem efficit, Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49: negat ullum esse cibum tam gravem, [[quin]] is [[die]] et nocte concoquatur, in a [[day]] and a [[night]], in [[twenty]]-[[four]] hours, id. ib. 2, 9, 24 (v. [[dies]], I. B. 2.): [[quod]] serenā nocte [[subito]] [[candens]] et plena [[luna]] defecisset, id. Rep. 1, 15, 23: dinumerationibus noctium ac dierum, id. ib. 3, 2, 3: [[Milo]] mediā nocte in campum venit, id. Att. 4, 3, 4: omni nocte dieque, Juv. 3, 105: de nocte, by [[night]], Cic. Mur. 33, 69: multā de nocte [[profectus]] est, [[late]] at [[night]], id. Att. 7, 4, 2; and: vigilare de nocte, id. Mur. 9, 22 (v. de, I. B. 2.): multā nocte veni ad Pompeium, id. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2: qui ad multam noctem vigilāssem, id. Rep. 6, 10, 10: ad multam noctem pugnatum est, Caes. B. G. 1, 26: sub noctem naves solvit, id. B. C. 1, 28: noctes et [[dies]] urgeri, [[night]] and [[day]], Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 260; cf.: qui ([[scrupulus]]) se [[dies]] noctesque stimulat, id. Rosc. Am. 2, 6 et saep. (v. [[dies]], I. B. 2.): concubiā nocte [[visum]] esse in somnis ei, etc., id. Div. 1, 27, 57 (v. [[concubius]]).—<br /> <b>(b)</b> Abl. [[noctu]]: hac [[noctu]] filo pendebit [[Etruria]] tota, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 153 Vahl.); so, hac [[noctu]], Plaut. Am. 1, 1. 116: [[noctu]] hac, id. Mil. 2, 4, 28: [[noctu]] concubiā, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 169 Vahl.): [[senatus]] de [[noctu]] convenire, [[noctu]] multā domum dimitti, Quadrig. ib.: [[ergo]] [[noctu]] futura, cum media esse coeperit, [[auspicium]] Saturnaliorum erit, Macr. S. 1, 4 fin.—Once masc. (as in cum [[primo]] [[lucu]]; v. lux): in [[sereno]] [[noctu]], [[Cato]], R. R. 156, 3.—<br /> <b>2</b> In partic., personified: Nox, the [[goddess]] of [[Night]], the [[sister]] of [[Erebus]], and by him the [[mother]] of Æther and Hemera, Cic. N. D. 2, 17, 44; Hyg. Fab. prooem.; Verg. A. 5, 721; Serv. Verg. A. 6, 250; Tib. 2, 1, 87; 3, 4 17; Ov. F. 1, 455; Val. Fl. 3, 211; Stat. Th. 2, 59 et saep.—<br /> <b>B</b> Transf.<br /> <b>1</b> That [[which]] takes [[place]] or is done at [[night]], nightdoings, [[night]]-[[work]] ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-[[class]]. [[prose]]): [[omnis]] et insanā [[semita]] nocte sonat, [[nocturnal]] [[noise]], a revelling by [[night]], Prop. 5, 8, 60; Val. Fl. 2, 219.—Hence, Noctes Atticae, the [[title]] of a [[work]] of [[Gellius]], [[which]] he wrote at [[Athens]] by [[night]], Gell. praef.—<br /> <b>2</b> [[Sleep]], a [[dream]] ([[poet]].): pectore noctem Accipit, Verg. A. 4, 530: talia vociferans noctem exturbabat, Stat. Th. 10, 219: abrupere oculi noctem, id. ib. 9, 599; Sil. 3, 216.—<br /> <b>3</b> In mal. [[part]]., Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 21; id. As. 1, 3, 42; Cic. Att. 1, 16, 5; Hor. Epod. 15, 13; Stat. Th. 1, 69; Just. 12, 3 et saep.; cf.: nox vidua, Cat. 6, 7; Ov. H. 19, 69.—<br /> <b>4</b> [[Death]] ([[poet]].): omnes una manet nox, Hor. C. 1, 28, 15: jam te premet nox fabulaeque [[Manes]], id. ib. 1, 4, 16: in aeternam clauduntur lumina noctem, Verg. A. 10, 746.—<br /> <b>5</b> Darkness, [[obscurity]], the [[gloom]] of [[tempest]]: quae lucem eriperet et [[quasi]] noctem quandam rebus offunderet, Cic. N. D. 1, 3, 6: [[carcer]] [[infernus]] et perpetuā nocte oppressa [[regio]], Sen. Ep. 82, 16: taetrā nimborum nocte coörtā, Lucr. 4, 172: [[imber]] Noctem hiememque ferens, Verg. A. 3, 194: venturam [[melius]] praesagit [[navita]] noctem, Prop. 4, 10, 5 (mortem, Müll.).—Hence, [[poet]]., of clouds of missiles, Luc. 7, 520; Val. Fl. 7, 598: veteris sub nocte cupressi, the [[shadow]], id. 1, 774.—<br /> <b>6</b> Blindness: perpetuāque trahens inopem sub nocte senectam [[Phineus]], Ov. M. 7, 2: ego [[vero]] non [[video]], nox oboritur, Sen. ap. Quint. 9, 2, 43: [[vultus]] perpetuā nocte coöpertus, Ps.-Quint. Decl. 1, 6. —<br /> <b>7</b> The shades [[below]], the [[infernal]] regions: descendere nocti, Sil. 13, 708: noctis [[arbiter]], i. e. [[Pluto]], Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 55.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br /> <b>A</b> Darkness, [[confusion]], [[gloomy]] [[condition]]: [[doleo]] me in hanc rei publicae noctem incidisse, Cic. Brut. 96, 330; cf.: rei publicae offusa sempiterna nox esset, id. Rosc. Am. 32, 91: nox [[ingens]] scelerum, Luc. 7, 571.—<br /> <b>B</b> Mental [[darkness]], [[ignorance]] ([[poet]].): [[quantum]] mortalia pectora caecae Noctis habent, Ov. M. 6, 472.—<br /> <b>2</b> Obscurity, unintelligibility: mei [[versus]] aliquantum noctis habebunt, Ov. Ib. 63.— Hence, adv.: nocte, noctū (cf. diu), and nox, in the [[night]], at [[night]], by [[night]].<br /> <b>(a)</b> Form nocte ([[rare]] [[but]] [[class]].): [[luce]] noctem, nocte lucem exspectatis, Auct. Her. 4, 36, 48: in campum nocte venire, Cic. Att. 4, 3, 4 ([[shortly]] [[after]]: in Comitium [[Milo]] de nocte venit): nec discernatur, [[interdiu]] nocte pugnent, Liv. 8, 34 fin.; so id. 21, 32, 10; cf.: nec nocte nec [[interdiu]], id. 1, 47; Juv. 3, 127, 198: [[velut]] nocte in ignotis locis errans, Quint. 7 prol. 3.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> Form [[noctu]] (so [[most]] freq.): ob Romam [[noctu]] legiones ducere coepit, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 179 Müll. (Ann. v. 295 Vahl.): noctuque et diu, Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 5; so, [[noctu]] diuque, Titin. and Sall. Hist. Fragm. ap. [[Charis]]. p. 185 P.; cf.: nec [[noctu]] nec diu, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 98, 27: continuum diu noctuque [[iter]] properabant, Tac. A. 15, 12 fin.: quā horā, [[noctu]] an [[interdiu]], Auct. Her. 2, 4, 7; cf.: [[nonnumquam]] [[interdiu]], saepius [[noctu]], Caes. B. G. 1, 8 fin.: [[noctu]] ambulabat in [[publico]] [[Themistocles]], Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44: [[noctu]] ad [[oppidum]] respicientes, id. Div. 1, 32, 69; id. Fam. 14, 7, 1: [[noctu]] Jugurthae milites introducit, Sall. J. 12, 4: [[noctu]] profugere, id. ib. 106, 2: dum [[noctu]] stertit, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 27: [[noctu]] litigare, Juv. 6, 35; 605; 14, 306.—<br /> <b>(g)</b> Form nox (cf. [[pernox]], and the Gr. νυκτός, [[only]] [[ante]]-[[class]].): SI NOX FVRTVM FACTVM SIT, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 med.: [[hinc]] media remis Palinurum [[pervenio]] nox, Lucil. Sat. 3, 22: [[quin]] tu hic manes? Arg. Nox si voles manebo, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 7 Ussing (al. mox); cf. id. Trin. 4, 2, 22 Brix, Krit. Anh. and Ritschl, ed. 2: si [[luci]], si nox, si mox, si jam [[data]] [[sit]] [[frux]], Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 724 P. (Ann. v. 412 Vahl.); cf. Gell. 12, 1. | |lshtext=<b>nox</b>: noctis (collat. form of the abl. [[noctu]];<br /><b>I</b><br /> v. [[infra]], I.) [Sanscr. nak, naktis, [[night]]; Gr. νύξ; Germ. Nacht; Engl. [[night]]; from [[root]] naç; cf. [[neco]], [[νέκυς]]], [[night]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: [[hinc]] nox processit stellis ardentibus apta, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 343 Vahl.): ipsa [[umbra]] terrae soli officiens noctem efficit, Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49: negat ullum esse cibum tam gravem, [[quin]] is [[die]] et nocte concoquatur, in a [[day]] and a [[night]], in [[twenty]]-[[four]] hours, id. ib. 2, 9, 24 (v. [[dies]], I. B. 2.): [[quod]] serenā nocte [[subito]] [[candens]] et plena [[luna]] defecisset, id. Rep. 1, 15, 23: dinumerationibus noctium ac dierum, id. ib. 3, 2, 3: [[Milo]] mediā nocte in campum venit, id. Att. 4, 3, 4: omni nocte dieque, Juv. 3, 105: de nocte, by [[night]], Cic. Mur. 33, 69: multā de nocte [[profectus]] est, [[late]] at [[night]], id. Att. 7, 4, 2; and: vigilare de nocte, id. Mur. 9, 22 (v. de, I. B. 2.): multā nocte veni ad Pompeium, id. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2: qui ad multam noctem vigilāssem, id. Rep. 6, 10, 10: ad multam noctem pugnatum est, Caes. B. G. 1, 26: sub noctem naves solvit, id. B. C. 1, 28: noctes et [[dies]] urgeri, [[night]] and [[day]], Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 260; cf.: qui ([[scrupulus]]) se [[dies]] noctesque stimulat, id. Rosc. Am. 2, 6 et saep. (v. [[dies]], I. B. 2.): concubiā nocte [[visum]] esse in somnis ei, etc., id. Div. 1, 27, 57 (v. [[concubius]]).—<br /> <b>(b)</b> Abl. [[noctu]]: hac [[noctu]] filo pendebit [[Etruria]] tota, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 153 Vahl.); so, hac [[noctu]], Plaut. Am. 1, 1. 116: [[noctu]] hac, id. Mil. 2, 4, 28: [[noctu]] concubiā, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 169 Vahl.): [[senatus]] de [[noctu]] convenire, [[noctu]] multā domum dimitti, Quadrig. ib.: [[ergo]] [[noctu]] futura, cum media esse coeperit, [[auspicium]] Saturnaliorum erit, Macr. S. 1, 4 fin.—Once masc. (as in cum [[primo]] [[lucu]]; v. lux): in [[sereno]] [[noctu]], [[Cato]], R. R. 156, 3.—<br /> <b>2</b> In partic., personified: Nox, the [[goddess]] of [[Night]], the [[sister]] of [[Erebus]], and by him the [[mother]] of Æther and Hemera, Cic. N. D. 2, 17, 44; Hyg. Fab. prooem.; Verg. A. 5, 721; Serv. Verg. A. 6, 250; Tib. 2, 1, 87; 3, 4 17; Ov. F. 1, 455; Val. Fl. 3, 211; Stat. Th. 2, 59 et saep.—<br /> <b>B</b> Transf.<br /> <b>1</b> That [[which]] takes [[place]] or is done at [[night]], nightdoings, [[night]]-[[work]] ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-[[class]]. [[prose]]): [[omnis]] et insanā [[semita]] nocte sonat, [[nocturnal]] [[noise]], a revelling by [[night]], Prop. 5, 8, 60; Val. Fl. 2, 219.—Hence, Noctes Atticae, the [[title]] of a [[work]] of [[Gellius]], [[which]] he wrote at [[Athens]] by [[night]], Gell. praef.—<br /> <b>2</b> [[Sleep]], a [[dream]] ([[poet]].): pectore noctem Accipit, Verg. A. 4, 530: talia vociferans noctem exturbabat, Stat. Th. 10, 219: abrupere oculi noctem, id. ib. 9, 599; Sil. 3, 216.—<br /> <b>3</b> In mal. [[part]]., Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 21; id. As. 1, 3, 42; Cic. Att. 1, 16, 5; Hor. Epod. 15, 13; Stat. Th. 1, 69; Just. 12, 3 et saep.; cf.: nox vidua, Cat. 6, 7; Ov. H. 19, 69.—<br /> <b>4</b> [[Death]] ([[poet]].): omnes una manet nox, Hor. C. 1, 28, 15: jam te premet nox fabulaeque [[Manes]], id. ib. 1, 4, 16: in aeternam clauduntur lumina noctem, Verg. A. 10, 746.—<br /> <b>5</b> Darkness, [[obscurity]], the [[gloom]] of [[tempest]]: quae lucem eriperet et [[quasi]] noctem quandam rebus offunderet, Cic. N. D. 1, 3, 6: [[carcer]] [[infernus]] et perpetuā nocte oppressa [[regio]], Sen. Ep. 82, 16: taetrā nimborum nocte coörtā, Lucr. 4, 172: [[imber]] Noctem hiememque ferens, Verg. A. 3, 194: venturam [[melius]] praesagit [[navita]] noctem, Prop. 4, 10, 5 (mortem, Müll.).—Hence, [[poet]]., of clouds of missiles, Luc. 7, 520; Val. Fl. 7, 598: veteris sub nocte cupressi, the [[shadow]], id. 1, 774.—<br /> <b>6</b> Blindness: perpetuāque trahens inopem sub nocte senectam [[Phineus]], Ov. M. 7, 2: ego [[vero]] non [[video]], nox oboritur, Sen. ap. Quint. 9, 2, 43: [[vultus]] perpetuā nocte coöpertus, Ps.-Quint. Decl. 1, 6. —<br /> <b>7</b> The shades [[below]], the [[infernal]] regions: descendere nocti, Sil. 13, 708: noctis [[arbiter]], i. e. [[Pluto]], Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 55.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br /> <b>A</b> Darkness, [[confusion]], [[gloomy]] [[condition]]: [[doleo]] me in hanc rei publicae noctem incidisse, Cic. Brut. 96, 330; cf.: rei publicae offusa sempiterna nox esset, id. Rosc. Am. 32, 91: nox [[ingens]] scelerum, Luc. 7, 571.—<br /> <b>B</b> Mental [[darkness]], [[ignorance]] ([[poet]].): [[quantum]] mortalia pectora caecae Noctis habent, Ov. M. 6, 472.—<br /> <b>2</b> Obscurity, unintelligibility: mei [[versus]] aliquantum noctis habebunt, Ov. Ib. 63.— Hence, adv.: nocte, noctū (cf. diu), and nox, in the [[night]], at [[night]], by [[night]].<br /> <b>(a)</b> Form nocte ([[rare]] [[but]] [[class]].): [[luce]] noctem, nocte lucem exspectatis, Auct. Her. 4, 36, 48: in campum nocte venire, Cic. Att. 4, 3, 4 ([[shortly]] [[after]]: in Comitium [[Milo]] de nocte venit): nec discernatur, [[interdiu]] nocte pugnent, Liv. 8, 34 fin.; so id. 21, 32, 10; cf.: nec nocte nec [[interdiu]], id. 1, 47; Juv. 3, 127, 198: [[velut]] nocte in ignotis locis errans, Quint. 7 prol. 3.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> Form [[noctu]] (so [[most]] freq.): ob Romam [[noctu]] legiones ducere coepit, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 179 Müll. (Ann. v. 295 Vahl.): noctuque et diu, Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 5; so, [[noctu]] diuque, Titin. and Sall. Hist. Fragm. ap. [[Charis]]. p. 185 P.; cf.: nec [[noctu]] nec diu, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 98, 27: continuum diu noctuque [[iter]] properabant, Tac. A. 15, 12 fin.: quā horā, [[noctu]] an [[interdiu]], Auct. Her. 2, 4, 7; cf.: [[nonnumquam]] [[interdiu]], saepius [[noctu]], Caes. B. G. 1, 8 fin.: [[noctu]] ambulabat in [[publico]] [[Themistocles]], Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44: [[noctu]] ad [[oppidum]] respicientes, id. Div. 1, 32, 69; id. Fam. 14, 7, 1: [[noctu]] Jugurthae milites introducit, Sall. J. 12, 4: [[noctu]] profugere, id. ib. 106, 2: dum [[noctu]] stertit, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 27: [[noctu]] litigare, Juv. 6, 35; 605; 14, 306.—<br /> <b>(g)</b> Form nox (cf. [[pernox]], and the Gr. νυκτός, [[only]] [[ante]]-[[class]].): SI NOX FVRTVM FACTVM SIT, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 med.: [[hinc]] media remis Palinurum [[pervenio]] nox, Lucil. Sat. 3, 22: [[quin]] tu hic manes? Arg. Nox si voles manebo, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 7 Ussing (al. mox); cf. id. Trin. 4, 2, 22 Brix, Krit. Anh. and Ritschl, ed. 2: si [[luci]], si nox, si mox, si jam [[data]] [[sit]] [[frux]], Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 724 P. (Ann. v. 412 Vahl.); cf. Gell. 12, 1. | ||
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|gf=<b>nox</b>,⁶ noctis, f. (νύξ),<br /><b>1</b> nuit : noctem efficere Cic. Nat. 2, 49, produire la huit ; [[die]] et [[nocte]] Cic. Nat. 2, 24, de jour et de nuit ; media [[nocte]] Cic. Att. 4, 3, 4, au milieu de la nuit ; [[sub]] noctem Cæs. C. 1, 28, 3, vers la nuit : noctes et [[dies]], [[dies]] noctesque Cic. de Or. 1, 260 ; Amer. 6, jours et nuits || [personnif.] la Nuit : Cic. Nat. 2, 44 ; Virg. En. 5, 721 || [divisée en cinq parties d’après Varron : Serv. En. 2, 268 ] : [[prima]] [[fax]], [[concubium]], [[nox]] intempesta, [[nox]] media, [[gallicinium]]<br /><b>2</b> [sens fig.] : <b> a)</b> repos de la nuit, sommeil : Virg. En. 4, 530 ; <b> b)</b> nuit de veilles : noctes Atticæ, les nuits Attiques d’Aulu-Gelle ; <b> c)</b> nuit de débauche : Cic. Att. 1, 15, 6 ; <b> d)</b> nuit éternelle : Hor. O. 1, 28, 15, etc. ; Virg. En. 10, 746 || nuit des enfers : Sil. 13, 708 ; <b> e)</b> nuit de la cécité : Ov. M. 7, 2 ; Sen. d. Quint. 9, 2, 43 ; <b> f)</b> obscurité, ténèbres : Sen. Ep. 82, 16 ; Lucr. 4, 172 ; Virg. En. 3, 194 || ombre d’un arbre : Val. Flacc. 1, 774<br /><b>3</b> situation sombre, troublée : [[doleo]] me in hanc [[rei]] publicæ noctem incidisse Cic. Br. 330, je m’afflige d’être tombé dans ces ténèbres politiques, cf. Cic. Amer. 91<br /><b>4</b> [[nox]] employé adv<sup>t</sup> comme [[noctu]], cf. Gell. 8, 1, titre du chap. ; Leg. xii Tab. d. Macr. Sat. 1, 4, 19 ; Enn. Ann. 431 ; Lucil. Sat. 127. [[noctu]] abl. f. arch. : [[hac]] [[noctu]] Enn. Ann. 152 ; Pl. Amph. 272 ; [[noctu]] [[hac]] Pl. Mil. 381, [[cette]] nuit-ci, cf. Enn. Ann. 164 ; Macr. Sat. 1, 4 || [donné par erreur comme m. ou n. ; dans [[Cato]] Agr. 157, 3 in [[sereno]] [[noctu]] = de nuit en plein air par un ciel serein, cf. [[noctu]] [[sub]] tecto [[Cato]] Agr. 88, 2 ]. | |||
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nox: noctis (collat. form of the abl. noctu;
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v. infra, I.) [Sanscr. nak, naktis, night; Gr. νύξ; Germ. Nacht; Engl. night; from root naç; cf. neco, νέκυς], night.
I Lit.: hinc nox processit stellis ardentibus apta, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 343 Vahl.): ipsa umbra terrae soli officiens noctem efficit, Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49: negat ullum esse cibum tam gravem, quin is die et nocte concoquatur, in a day and a night, in twenty-four hours, id. ib. 2, 9, 24 (v. dies, I. B. 2.): quod serenā nocte subito candens et plena luna defecisset, id. Rep. 1, 15, 23: dinumerationibus noctium ac dierum, id. ib. 3, 2, 3: Milo mediā nocte in campum venit, id. Att. 4, 3, 4: omni nocte dieque, Juv. 3, 105: de nocte, by night, Cic. Mur. 33, 69: multā de nocte profectus est, late at night, id. Att. 7, 4, 2; and: vigilare de nocte, id. Mur. 9, 22 (v. de, I. B. 2.): multā nocte veni ad Pompeium, id. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2: qui ad multam noctem vigilāssem, id. Rep. 6, 10, 10: ad multam noctem pugnatum est, Caes. B. G. 1, 26: sub noctem naves solvit, id. B. C. 1, 28: noctes et dies urgeri, night and day, Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 260; cf.: qui (scrupulus) se dies noctesque stimulat, id. Rosc. Am. 2, 6 et saep. (v. dies, I. B. 2.): concubiā nocte visum esse in somnis ei, etc., id. Div. 1, 27, 57 (v. concubius).—
(b) Abl. noctu: hac noctu filo pendebit Etruria tota, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 153 Vahl.); so, hac noctu, Plaut. Am. 1, 1. 116: noctu hac, id. Mil. 2, 4, 28: noctu concubiā, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 169 Vahl.): senatus de noctu convenire, noctu multā domum dimitti, Quadrig. ib.: ergo noctu futura, cum media esse coeperit, auspicium Saturnaliorum erit, Macr. S. 1, 4 fin.—Once masc. (as in cum primo lucu; v. lux): in sereno noctu, Cato, R. R. 156, 3.—
2 In partic., personified: Nox, the goddess of Night, the sister of Erebus, and by him the mother of Æther and Hemera, Cic. N. D. 2, 17, 44; Hyg. Fab. prooem.; Verg. A. 5, 721; Serv. Verg. A. 6, 250; Tib. 2, 1, 87; 3, 4 17; Ov. F. 1, 455; Val. Fl. 3, 211; Stat. Th. 2, 59 et saep.—
B Transf.
1 That which takes place or is done at night, nightdoings, night-work (poet. and in post-class. prose): omnis et insanā semita nocte sonat, nocturnal noise, a revelling by night, Prop. 5, 8, 60; Val. Fl. 2, 219.—Hence, Noctes Atticae, the title of a work of Gellius, which he wrote at Athens by night, Gell. praef.—
2 Sleep, a dream (poet.): pectore noctem Accipit, Verg. A. 4, 530: talia vociferans noctem exturbabat, Stat. Th. 10, 219: abrupere oculi noctem, id. ib. 9, 599; Sil. 3, 216.—
3 In mal. part., Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 21; id. As. 1, 3, 42; Cic. Att. 1, 16, 5; Hor. Epod. 15, 13; Stat. Th. 1, 69; Just. 12, 3 et saep.; cf.: nox vidua, Cat. 6, 7; Ov. H. 19, 69.—
4 Death (poet.): omnes una manet nox, Hor. C. 1, 28, 15: jam te premet nox fabulaeque Manes, id. ib. 1, 4, 16: in aeternam clauduntur lumina noctem, Verg. A. 10, 746.—
5 Darkness, obscurity, the gloom of tempest: quae lucem eriperet et quasi noctem quandam rebus offunderet, Cic. N. D. 1, 3, 6: carcer infernus et perpetuā nocte oppressa regio, Sen. Ep. 82, 16: taetrā nimborum nocte coörtā, Lucr. 4, 172: imber Noctem hiememque ferens, Verg. A. 3, 194: venturam melius praesagit navita noctem, Prop. 4, 10, 5 (mortem, Müll.).—Hence, poet., of clouds of missiles, Luc. 7, 520; Val. Fl. 7, 598: veteris sub nocte cupressi, the shadow, id. 1, 774.—
6 Blindness: perpetuāque trahens inopem sub nocte senectam Phineus, Ov. M. 7, 2: ego vero non video, nox oboritur, Sen. ap. Quint. 9, 2, 43: vultus perpetuā nocte coöpertus, Ps.-Quint. Decl. 1, 6. —
7 The shades below, the infernal regions: descendere nocti, Sil. 13, 708: noctis arbiter, i. e. Pluto, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 55.—
II Trop.
A Darkness, confusion, gloomy condition: doleo me in hanc rei publicae noctem incidisse, Cic. Brut. 96, 330; cf.: rei publicae offusa sempiterna nox esset, id. Rosc. Am. 32, 91: nox ingens scelerum, Luc. 7, 571.—
B Mental darkness, ignorance (poet.): quantum mortalia pectora caecae Noctis habent, Ov. M. 6, 472.—
2 Obscurity, unintelligibility: mei versus aliquantum noctis habebunt, Ov. Ib. 63.— Hence, adv.: nocte, noctū (cf. diu), and nox, in the night, at night, by night.
(a) Form nocte (rare but class.): luce noctem, nocte lucem exspectatis, Auct. Her. 4, 36, 48: in campum nocte venire, Cic. Att. 4, 3, 4 (shortly after: in Comitium Milo de nocte venit): nec discernatur, interdiu nocte pugnent, Liv. 8, 34 fin.; so id. 21, 32, 10; cf.: nec nocte nec interdiu, id. 1, 47; Juv. 3, 127, 198: velut nocte in ignotis locis errans, Quint. 7 prol. 3.—
(b) Form noctu (so most freq.): ob Romam noctu legiones ducere coepit, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 179 Müll. (Ann. v. 295 Vahl.): noctuque et diu, Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 5; so, noctu diuque, Titin. and Sall. Hist. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 185 P.; cf.: nec noctu nec diu, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 98, 27: continuum diu noctuque iter properabant, Tac. A. 15, 12 fin.: quā horā, noctu an interdiu, Auct. Her. 2, 4, 7; cf.: nonnumquam interdiu, saepius noctu, Caes. B. G. 1, 8 fin.: noctu ambulabat in publico Themistocles, Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44: noctu ad oppidum respicientes, id. Div. 1, 32, 69; id. Fam. 14, 7, 1: noctu Jugurthae milites introducit, Sall. J. 12, 4: noctu profugere, id. ib. 106, 2: dum noctu stertit, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 27: noctu litigare, Juv. 6, 35; 605; 14, 306.—
(g) Form nox (cf. pernox, and the Gr. νυκτός, only ante-class.): SI NOX FVRTVM FACTVM SIT, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 med.: hinc media remis Palinurum pervenio nox, Lucil. Sat. 3, 22: quin tu hic manes? Arg. Nox si voles manebo, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 7 Ussing (al. mox); cf. id. Trin. 4, 2, 22 Brix, Krit. Anh. and Ritschl, ed. 2: si luci, si nox, si mox, si jam data sit frux, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 724 P. (Ann. v. 412 Vahl.); cf. Gell. 12, 1.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
nox,⁶ noctis, f. (νύξ),
1 nuit : noctem efficere Cic. Nat. 2, 49, produire la huit ; die et nocte Cic. Nat. 2, 24, de jour et de nuit ; media nocte Cic. Att. 4, 3, 4, au milieu de la nuit ; sub noctem Cæs. C. 1, 28, 3, vers la nuit : noctes et dies, dies noctesque Cic. de Or. 1, 260 ; Amer. 6, jours et nuits
