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|Definition=νυκτός, ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[night]]: either generally, [[night season]] (opp. [[day]]), or a [[night]], ν. [[ἀμβροσίη]] Il.24.363; ν. [[ἄμβροτος]] Od.11.330; but <b class="b3">ν. ὀλοή</b> ib.19, Il.16.567, cf. infr. Il. 3, III; [[νυκτός]] [[by night]], as adverb, Od. 13.278, etc.; οὔτε ν. οὔτ' ἐξ ἡμέρας S.''El.''780; <b class="b3">νυκτὸς ἔτι</b> [[while it was]] still [[night]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]9.10; also [[τῆς]] νυκτός Alex.78.3, 148; ν. τῆσδε [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''21; [[ἄκρας νυκτός]] = [[at dead of night]], ib.285 (but [[ἄκρῃ νυκτί]] at [[nightfall]], Arat.775, [[ἀκρόθι νυκτός]] = [[on the verge of dawn]], Id.308); <b class="b3">ἀωρὶ νυκτός, τῶν νυκτῶν</b>, v. [[ἀωρί]]: in plural, τῶν νυκτῶν = [[at nights]], Ar.''Ec.''668: rarely, νυκτί [[Herodotus|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.; <b class="b3">δύω νύκτας, τρεῖς νύκτας</b>, 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 νύκτας X.''Smp.''4.54; νύκτας τε καὶ ἦμαρ Il.5.490; νύκτας τε καὶ ἡμέρας [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Theaetetus|Tht.]]''151a; οὔτε νύκτ' οὔθ' ἡμέραν E.''Ba.''187; τὴν νύχθ' ὅλην τήν θ' ἡμέραν Eub.53.1; <b class="b3">νύκτα ἡμέραν ποιούμενος ἀπόστειλον ([[κατάπεμψον]])</b>, i.e. [[without delay]], ''PCair.Zen.''314.7, ''PSI''5.514.3 (both iii B. C.); μέσαι νύκτες [[midnight]], Sapph.52, [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Republic|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.<br><span class="bld">2</span> freq. with Preps., [[ἀνὰ νύκτα]] = [[by night]], Il.14.80; [[ἀνὰ πᾶσαν νύκτα]] = [[all night through]], Paus.1.32.4; διὰ νύκτα Od.19.66, etc.; [[εἰς νύκτα]], [[εἰς τὴν νύκτα]], [[towards night]], X.''Cyn.''11.4, ''HG''4.6.7; [[ἐν νυττί]] ([[ἐν νυκτί]]), opp. [[πεδ' ἀμέραν]], ''Leg.Gort.''2.14, ''SIG''527.40 (Dreros, iii B.C.); κατὰ νύκτα Ar.''Fr.'' 561 (lyr.); [[ὑπὸ νύκτα]] = [[towards 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]], [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''1.4.2, [[LXX]] ''Is.'' 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 νυκτί Pi.''I.''4(3).36; ἐν ν. τῇ νῦν S.''Ant.'' 16; νύκτεσσιν ἔν θ' ἁμέραις Pi.''P.''4.130.<br><span class="bld">3</span> in plural, [[watch]]es of the [[night]], ib.256; three such, παροίχωκεν δὲ πλέων νὺξ τῶν δύο μοιράων, τριτάτη δ' ἔτι μοῖρα λέλειπται Il.10.252; <b class="b3">τρίχα νυκτὸς ἔην</b>, for <b class="b3">τρίτον μέρος τῆς νυκτὸς ἦν</b>, it was the [[third]] [[watch]], i.e. [[next]] [[before]] [[morning]], Od.12.312.<br><span class="bld">II</span> metaph. of [[darkness]], νυκτὶ καλύψαι Il.5.23, cf. Od. 20.351, etc.<br><span class="bld">2</span> metaph. of death, ἀμφὶ δὲ ὄσσε κελαινὴ ν. ἐκάλυψε Il.5.310, al.; ν. Ἅιδης τε [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''660.<br><span class="bld">3</span> 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; <b class="b3">τάδε νυκτὶ ἐΐσκει</b> what is here he [[liken]]s to [[night]], 20.362; <b class="b3">ὀλεθρία νύξ</b>, of a [[great]] [[calamity]], S.''OC'' 1684(lyr.).<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[Νύξ]] as pr. n., [[Nyx]], the [[goddess of Night]], Il.14.259, Hes.''Op.''17,''Th.''123,211; N. [[ὀλοή]] ib.224.<br><span class="bld">IV</span> the [[night-quarter of heaven]] or [[evening-quarter of heaven]], the [[West]], <b class="b3">πρὸς νυκτός</b> ib.275. (Cf. Lat. [[nox]], Lith. naktis, Goth. nahts, etc.)