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, Amphis20.4 ; “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, PSI5.514.3 (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, HG4.6.7 ; ἐν νυττί (νυκτί), opp. πεδ᾽ ἀμέραν, Leg.Gort.2.14, SIG527.40 (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, LXXIs. 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.