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|mdlsjtxt=νύξ, νυκτός,<br /><b class="num">I.</b> Lat. nox, [[night]], i. e. [[either]] the [[night]]-[[season]] or a [[night]], Hom., Hes., etc.; νυκτός by [[night]], Lat. [[noctu]], Od., [[attic]]; νυκτὸς ἔτι [[while]] it was [[still]] [[night]], Hdt.; ν. τῆσδε Soph.; ἄκρας ν. at deadof [[night]], Soph.; also, νυκτί Hdt., Soph.;— νύκτα the [[night]] [[long]], the [[livelong]] [[night]], Hom.; νύκτας by nights, Hom.;— μέσαι νύκτες [[midnight]], Plat.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> with Preps., ἀνὰ νύκτα by [[night]], Il.; διὰ νύκτα Od.; εἰς νύκτα, εἰς τὴν ν. [[towards]] [[night]], Xen.; ὑπὸ νύκτα [[just]] at [[night]]-[[fall]], Thuc., Xen.; διὰ νυκτός in the [[course]] of the [[night]], Plat.; ἐκ νυκτός [[just]] [[after]] [[night]]-[[fall]], Xen.; [[πόρρω]] τῶν νυκτῶν far [[into]] the [[night]], Xen.:— ἐπὶ νυκτί by [[night]], Il.; ἐν νυκτί, ἐν τῇ ϝ. Aesch., etc.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> in plural, also, the watches of the [[night]], Pind., Plat.:—the Greeks divided the [[night]] [[into]] [[three]] watches, Hom., etc.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> the [[dark]] of [[night]], Hom.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> the [[night]] of [[death]], Hom.; ν. Ἄιδης τε Soph.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> Νύξ as [[prop]]. n., the [[goddess]] of [[Night]], [[daughter]] of [[Chaos]], Il., Hes.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> the [[quarter]] of [[night]], i. e. the West, Hes.