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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 />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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 />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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 />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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 />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [[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 />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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 />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>4</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [[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 />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>5</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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 />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>6</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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 />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>7</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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 />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<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 />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Mental [[darkness]], [[ignorance]] ([[poet]].): [[quantum]] mortalia pectora caecae Noctis habent, Ov. M. 6, 472.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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 />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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 />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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 />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.