νύξ
Alt. νύξ, νυκτός,
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.
2. "the night of death", id=Hom.; ν. Ἄιδης τε Soph.
III. Νύξ as prop. n., "the goddess of Night", daughter of Chaos, Il., Hes.
IV. "the quarter of night", i. e. the West, Hes.