Ἄκρας νυκτός
at dead of night
Translated by Jennifer Benedict22 Mar 2001Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] around the onset of sleep. "For at dead of night, when evening watch-fires no longer burned, that man [took up a sword]." When the evening [sc. watch-fires] would not show forth any longer, or when the lanterns had been extinguished. For then [is] a time of conspiracy and mugging.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἄκρας νυκτός· περὶ πρῶτον ὕπνον. κεῖνος γὰρ ἄκρας νυκτὸς, ἡνίχ' ἕσπεροι λαμπτῆρες οὐκέτ' ᾖθον. ὅτε οὐκ ἔφαινον ἔτι οἱ ἑσπέριοι, ἢ ὅτε ἐσβέσθησαν οἱ λύχνοι. καιρὸς γὰρ ἐπιβουλῆς καὶ ἐπιθέσεως τότε.
Betacode
*)/akras nukto/s: peri\ prw=ton u(/pnon. kei=nos ga\r a)/kras nukto\s, h(ni/x' e(/speroi lampth=res ou)ke/t' h)=|qon. o(/te ou)k e)/fainon e)/ti oi( e(spe/rioi, h)\ o(/te e)sbe/sqhsan oi( lu/xnoi. kairo\s ga\r e)piboulh=s kai\ e)piqe/sews to/te.