α957Ἄκρας νυκτός
at dead of night
[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…
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…