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δύσις [υ^], εως, ἡ, （δύω)
A.setting of the sun or stars, opp. ἀνατολή, Heraclit.120, A.Pr.458; ἀμφὶ Ηλειάδων δύσιν (cf. Ηλειάδες) Id.Ag. 826; “περὶ δύσιν Ηλειάδος” Damox.2.19; δ. χειμερινή, θερινή, ἰσημερινή, Cleom.1.9; “δ. τροπική” Str.2.4.7; “ἄχρι ἡλίου δύσεως” IG4.597 (Argos); ἁλίου ἄχρι δ. ib.606 (ibid.); “Κυνὸς ψυχρὰν δ.” S.Fr.432.11; personified, PMag.Berol.2.94: pl., δύσιες, opp. ἀντολαί, A.R.1.85: metaph., “δ. τοῦ λογισμοῦ” Ph.1.511.
2. quarter in which the sun sets, west, “πρὸς ἡλίου δύσιν” Th.2.96; “πρὸς δύσεις” Arist.Mu.393a18; “ἀπὸ δύσεως” CIG1755 (Opus); “πρὸς δύσει” Plb.1.42.5; “πρὸς τὰς δύσεις βλέπειν” Id.5.104.7.
II. hiding-place, Opp.H.1.330.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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