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[312] ἦμος δέ. The day is divided into three portions, “ἠώς, μέσον ἦμαρ, δείλη” Il.21. 111.So is the night, cp. Il.10. 251“μάλα γὰρ νὺξ ἄνεται, ἐγγύθι δ᾽ ἠώς”,

“ἄστρα δὲ δὴ προβέβηκε, παρῴχηκεν δὲ πλέων νὺξ”
“τῶν δύο μοιράων, τριτάτη δ᾽ ἔτι μοῖρα λέλειπται”. Here μετὰ … βεβήκει means to ‘cross the zenith and decline,’ as “μετενίσσετο” Od.9. 58.Translate, ‘But when it was in the third watch of the night, and the stars had southed.’

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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