νύξ

English (LSJ)

νυκτός, ἡ,

   A night : either generally, mght-season (opp. day), or a night, ν. ἀμβροσίη Il.24.363 ; ν. ἄμβροτος Od.11.330 ; but ν. ὀλοή ib.19, Il.16.567, cf. infr. Il. 3, III ; νυκτός by night, as Adv., Od. 13.278, etc. ; οὔτε ν. οὔτ' ἐξ ἡμέρας S.El.780 ; νυκτὸς ἔτι while it was still night, Hdt.9.10 ; also τῆς νυκτός Alex.78.3, 148 ; ν. τῆσδε S. Aj.21 ; ἄκρας ν. at dead of night, ib.285 (but ἄκρῃ νυκτί at night-fall, Arat.775, ἀκρόθι νυκτός on the verge of dawn, Id.308) ; ἀωρὶ νυκτός, τῶν νυκτῶν, v. ἀωρί : in pl., τῶν νυκτῶν at nights, Ar.Ec.668 : rarely, νυκτί Hdt.7.12 ; ν. τῇδε S.El.644 ; νύκτα the night long, νύκτα φυλάσσειν to watch the night through, Il.10.312, Od.5.466 : pl., νύκτας ἰαύειν Il.9.325, Od.5.154, etc. ; δύω νύκτας, τρεῖς ν., ib.388, 17.515 : in Att., ὅλην τὴν ν. Pherecr.177, Amphis20.4 ; τὴν νύχθ' ὅλην Eub.3 ; τὰς νύκτας Diph.32.14 ; ὅλας γε καὶ πάσας τὰς ν. X.Smp.4.54 ; νύκτας τε καὶ ἦμαρ Il.5.490 ; νύκτας τε καὶ ἡμέρας Pl.Tht.151a ; οὔτε νύκτ' οὔθ' ἡμέραν E.Ba.187 ; τὴν νύχθ' ὅλην τήν θ' ἡμέραν Eub.53.1 ; νύκτα ἡμέραν ποιούμενος ἀπόστειλον (κατάπεμψον), i. e. without delay, PCair.Zen.314.7, PSI5.514.3 (both iii B. C.) ; μέσαι νύκτες midnight, Sapph.52, Pl.R.621b ; περὶ μ. νύκτας X.An.7.8.12 ; ἐν μέσῳ νυκτῶν Id.Cyr.5.3.52 ; πρωΐτερον μέσων νυκτῶν Th.8.101 ; ἔξω μέσων ν. D.54.26.    2 freq. with Preps., ἀνὰ νύκτα by night, Il.14.80 ; ἀνὰ πᾶσαν ν. all night through, Paus.1.32.4 ; διὰ νύκτα Od.19.66, etc. ; εἰς νύκτα, εἰς τὴν ν., towards night, X.Cyn.11.4, HG4.6.7 ; ἐν νυττί (νυκτί), opp. πεδ' ἀμέραν, Leg.Gort.2.14, SIG527.40 (Dreros, iii B.C.) ; κατὰ νύκτα Ar.Fr. 561 (lyr.) ; ὑπὸ νύκτα to wards nightfall, Th.4.67, X.Ages.2.19 ; μετὰ νύκτας by night, Pi.N.6.6 ; μεθ' ἡμέραν καὶ διὰ νυκτός all through the night, Pl.Criti.117e ; ἐκ νυκτός after nightfall, X.Cyr.1.4.2, LXXIs. 26.9, etc. ; ἐκ πολλῆς ἔτι νυκτός D.H.6.67 ; ἐκ νυκτῶν Thgn.460, A. Ch.287, E.Rh.13, 17 (both anap.) ; ἐκ νυκτὸς εἰς νύκτα Pl.Ax.368b ; πόρρω τῶν νυκτῶν far into the night, Id.Smp.217d, Prt.310c ; ἐπὶ νυκτί by night, Il.8.529 ; ἐφ' ἡμέρῃ αἱ δ' ἐπὶ νυκτί Hes.Op.102 ; ἐν νυκτί A. Ag.653, X.Smp.1.9, etc. ; ὀψίᾳ ἐν ν. Pi.I.4(3).36 ; ἐν ν. τῇ νῦν S.Ant. 16 ; νύκτεσσιν ἔν θ' ἁμέραις Pi.P.4.130.    3 in pl., watches of the night, ib.256 ; three such, παροίχωκεν δὲ πλέων νὺξ τῶν δύο μοιράων, τριτάτη δ' ἔτι μοῖρα λέλειπται Il.10.252 ; τρίχα νυκτὸς ἔην, for τρίτον μέρος τῆς νυκτὸς ἦν, it was the third watch, i. e. next before morning, Od.12.312.    II metaph. of darkness, νυκτὶ καλύψαι Il.5.23, cf. Od. 20.351, etc.    2 metaph. of death, ἀμφὶ δὲ ὄσσε κελαινὴ ν. ἐκάλυψε Il.5.310, al. ; ν. Ἅιδης τε S.Aj.660.    3 in Comparisons, of anything dark and direful, νυκτὶ ἐοικώς like night, of Apollo in his wrath, Il.1.47, cf. 12.463, Od.11.606 ; τάδε νυκτὶ ἐΐσκει what is here he like ns to night, 20.362 ; ὀλεθρία ν., of a great calamity, S.OC 1684(lyr.).    III Νύξ as pr. n., the goddess of Night, Il.14.259, Hes.Op.17,Th.123,211 ; N. ὀλοή ib.224.    IV the night- or evening-quarter of heaven, the West, πρὸς νυκτός ib.275. (Cf. Lat. nox, Lith. naktis, Goth. nahts, etc.)