I.Lat. nox, night, i. e. either the night-season or a night, Hom., Hes., etc.; νυκτός by night, Lat. noctu, Od., attic; νυκτὸς ἔτι while it was still night, Hdt.; ν. τῆσδε Soph.; ἄκρας ν. at deadof night, id=Soph.; also, νυκτί Hdt., Soph.;— νύκτα the night long, the livelong night, Hom.; νύκτας by nights, id=Hom.;— μέσαι νύκτες midnight, Plat.
2.with Preps., ἀνὰ νύκτα by night, Il.; διὰ νύκτα Od.; εἰς νύκτα, εἰς τὴν ν. towards night, Xen.; ὑπὸ νύκτα just at night-fall, Thuc., Xen.; διὰ νυκτός in the course of the night, Plat.; ἐκ νυκτός just after night-fall, Xen.; πόρρω τῶν νυκτῶν far into the night, id=Xen.:— ἐπὶ νυκτί by night, Il.; ἐν νυκτί, ἐν τῇ ϝ. Aesch., etc.
3.in pl., also, the watches of the night, Pind., Plat.:—the Greeks divided the night into three watches, Hom., etc.
II.the dark of night, Hom.
III.Νύξ as prop. n., the goddess of Night, daughter of Chaos, Il., Hes.
IV.the quarter of night, i. e. the West, Hes.
