A). night : either generally, mght-season (opp. day), or a night, ν. ἀμβροσίη Il. 24.363 ; ν. ἄμβροτος Od. 11.330 ; but ν. ὀλοή ib. 19 , Il. 16.567 , cf. infr. Il. 3 , III ; νυκτός by night, as Adv., Od. 13.278 , etc.; οὔτε ν. οὔτ’ ἐξ ἡμέρας S. El. 780 ; νυκτὸς ἔτι while it was still night, Hdt. 9.10 ; also τῆς νυκτός Alex. 78.3 , 148 ; ν. τῆσδε S. Aj. 21 ; ἄκρας ν. at dead of night, ib. 285 (but ἄκρῃ νυκτί at night-fall, Arat. 775 , ἀκρόθι νυκτός on the verge of dawn, Id. 308 ); ἀωρὶ νυκτός, τῶν νυκτῶν, v. ἀωρί : in pl., τῶν νυκτῶν at nights, Ar. Ec. 668 : rarely, νυκτί Hdt. 7.12 ; ν. τῇδε S. El. 644 ; νύκτα the night long, νύκτα φυλάσσειν to watch the night through, Il. 10.312 , Od. 5.466 : pl., νύκτας ἰαύειν Il. 9.325 , Od. 5.154 , etc.; δύω νύκτας, τρεῖς ν., ib. 388 , 17.515 : in Att., ὅλην τὴν ν. Pherecr. 177 , Amphis 20.4 ; τὴν νύχθ’ ὅλην Eub. 3 ; τὰς νύκτας Diph. 32.14 ; ὅλας γε καὶ πάσας τὰς ν. X. Smp. 4.54 ; νύκτας τε καὶ ἦμαρ Il. 5.490 ; νύκτας τε καὶ ἡμέρας Pl. Tht. 151a ; οὔτε νύκτ’ οὔθ’ ἡμέραν E. Ba. 187 ; τὴν νύχθ’ ὅλην τήν θ’ ἡμέραν Eub. 53.1 ; νύκτα ἡμέραν ποιούμενος ἀπόστειλον (κατάπεμψον), i. e. without delay, PCair.Zen. 314.7 , PSI 5.514.3 (both iii B. C.); μέσαι νύκτες midnight, Sapph. 52 , Pl. R. 621b ; περὶ μ. νύκτας X. An. 7.8.12 ; ἐν μέσῳ νυκτῶν Id. Cyr. 5.3.52 ; πρωΐτερον μέσων νυκτῶν Th. 8.101 ; ἔξω μέσων ν. D. 54.26 .

2). freq. with Preps., ἀνὰ νύκτα by night, Il. 14.80 ; ἀνὰ πᾶσαν ν. all night through, Paus. 1.32.4 ; διὰ νύκτα Od. 19.66 , etc.; εἰς νύκτα, εἰς τὴν ν., towards night, X. Cyn. 11.4 , HG 4.6.7 ; ἐν νυττί (νυκτἴ, opp. πεδ’ ἀμέραν, Leg.Gort. 2.14 , SIG 527.40 (Dreros, iii B.C.); κατὰ νύκτα Ar. Fr. 561 (lyr.); ὑπὸ νύκτα to wards nightfall, Th. 4.67 , X. Ages. 2.19 ; μετὰ νύκτας by night, Pi. N. 6.6 ; μεθ’ ἡμέραν καὶ διὰ νυκτός all through the night, Pl. Criti. 117e ; ἐκ νυκτός after nightfall, X. Cyr. 1.4.2 , LXX Is. 26.9 , etc.; ἐκ πολλῆς ἔτι νυκτός D.H. 6.67 ; ἐκ νυκτῶν Thgn. 460 , A. Ch. 287 , E. Rh. 13 , 17 (both anap.); ἐκ νυκτὸς εἰς νύκτα Pl. Ax. 368b ; πόρρω τῶν νυκτῶν far into the night, Id. Smp. 217d , Prt. 310c ; ἐπὶ νυκτί by night, Il. 8.529 ; ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ αἱ δ’ ἐπὶ νυκτί Hes. Op. 102 ; ἐν νυκτί A. Ag. 653 , X. Smp. 1.9 , etc.; ὀψίᾳ ἐν ν. Pi. I. 4(3).36 ; ἐν ν. τῇ νῦν S. Ant. 16 ; νύκτεσσιν ἔν θ’ ἁμέραις Pi. P. 4.130 .

3). in pl., watches of the night, ib. 256 ; three such, παροίχωκεν δὲ πλέων νὺξ τῶν δύο μοιράων, τριτάτη δ’ ἔτι μοῖρα λέλειπται Il. 10.252 ; τρίχα νυκτὸς ἔην, for τρίτον μέρος τῆς νυκτὸς ἦν, it was the third watch, i. e. next before morning, Od. 12.312 .

II). metaph. of darkness, νυκτὶ καλύψαι Il. 5.23 , cf. Od. 20.351 , etc.

2). metaph. of death, ἀμφὶ δὲ ὄσσε κελαινὴ ν. ἐκάλυψε Il. 5.310 , al.; ν. Ἅιδης τε S. Aj. 660 .

3). in Comparisons, of anything dark and direful, νυκτὶ ἐοικώς like night, of Apollo in his wrath, Il. 1.47 , cf. 12.463 , Od. 11.606 ; τάδε νυκτὶ ἐΐσκει what is here he like ns to night, 20.362 ; ὀλεθρία ν., of a great calamity, S. OC 1684 (lyr.).

III). Νύξ as pr. n., the goddess of Night, Il. 14.259 , Hes. Op. 17 , Th. 123 , 211 ; N. ὀλοή ib. 224 .

IV). the night- or evening-quarter of heaven, the West, πρὸς νυκτός ib. 275 . (Cf. Lat. nox, Lith. naktis, Goth. nahts, etc.)