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δείλη , ,
II. δ. alone,
1. early afternoon,δείλῃ δὲ τέμνεται ὀπώραS.Fr.255; “ἤδη ἦν μέσον ἡμέρας . ., ἡνίκα δὲ δείλη ἐγένετοX.An.1.8.8; ἀμφὶ δείλην ib.2.2.14 (opp. ὀψέ, ib.16); “περὶ δείληνHdt.9.101, Th.4.69,103; ἀπὸ δείλης from the hour of afternoon, Arist.HA564a19; “τῆς δείληςin the course of the afternoon, X.An.7.3.10; but also,
2. in late Prose, any time of day, περὶ μεσημβρίαν δ. about mid-day, Ach.Tat.3.2.
b. apparently, day, opp. night, δείλης ἐργάταις) PLond.1.131r44 (ii A.D.), cf. 244.
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    • Demosthenes, Against Eubulides, 9
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.6
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.167
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.101
    • Homer, Iliad, 21.111
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.69
    • Thucydides, Histories, 8.26
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 1.8.8
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    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 3.3.11
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 3.4.34
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    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 7.3.10
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 1.1.5
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 4.1.22
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 255
    • Achilles Tatius, Leucippe et Clitophon, 3.2
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