A.“κνέφους” Ar.Ec.290, Com.Adesp.35, later “κνέφατος” Plb.8.26.10; dat. “κνέφᾳ” X.HG7.1.15, “κνέφεϊ” AP7.633 (Crin.), as if from κνέφος , cited by Hsch., Suid., Phot.: (cf. δνόφος):—darkness, Hom. (only in nom. and acc.), of the evening dusk, twilight, “εἰς ὅ κε . . δύῃ τ᾽ ἠέλιος καὶ ἐπὶ κ. ἱερὸν ἔλθῃ” Il.11.194, 209: later, generally, darkness, “δυσάλιον κ.” A.Eu.396 (lyr.); “νυκτός” Id.Pers.357, cf. E.Ba.510, etc.; “τὸ κατὰ γᾶς κ.” Id.Hipp.836 (lyr.): metaph., “τοῖον ἐπὶ κ. ἀνδρὶ μύσος πεπόταται” A.Eu.378 (lyr.).
κνέφα^ς , τό, Att. gen.
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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