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Τούτῳ τῷ λόγῳ χρήσαιτο ἄν τις ἐπ' ἐκείνων τῶν ἀνθρώπων οἳ παραδόξως ἀλαζονεύονται, μηδὲ τὰ κοινὰ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ἐπιτελεῖν δυνάμενοι → One would use this fable for those who give themselves unreasonable airs, but can't handle everyday life (Aesop 40)
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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
