• night: nox, noctis,
f. (with heteroclite
abl. noctu, used adverb.,
by night:
Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44: connected with interdiu,
by day,
Caes. B. G. 1, 8):
a cloudless n., n. serena,
Cic. Rep. 1, 15:
a starlight n., n. illustris,
Plin. 9, 16, 23:
at mid-n., mediâ n.,
Cic. Att. 4, 3:
by n., de nocte,
id. Mur. 33, 69:
the depth of the n., intempesta n.,
Sall. Cat. 32:
in the early part of the n., concubiâ n.,
Cic. Div. 1, 27, 57:
Tac.:
day and n. (i. e. incessantly), noctes et dies,
Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 260; noctesque diesque (
poet.),
Enn. in Cic. Sen. 1. (For
late in the n.,
v. late,
adj., II.)
Adj. nocturnus,
belonging to the night; in the n.:
to undertake toil by n. and by day, labores diurnos nocturnosque suscipere,
Cic. Sen. 23, 82:
poet. = de nocte:
the wolf prowls by n., lupus nocturnus obambulat,
Virg. G. 3, 538. Also, noctuabundus (rare):
cf. Cic. Att. 12, 1, noctuabundus ad me venit tabellarius, came to me by n. Phr.:
two, three n.s (together), bĭnoctium, trĭnoctium (both
extr. rare):
Tac. A. 3, 71 (plusquam binoctium abesse):
Val. Max. 2, 4, 5 (trinoctio = tribus continuis noctibus,
on three successive n.s):
at the beginning of n., primis tenebris,
Liv. 31, 24, med.:
to lie awake (sit up) all n., pervigilare,
Mart. 9, 68, 8 (also with noctem: orat, ut eam noctem pervigilet,
Cic. R. Am. 35, 98):
to work or
study by n. (by a lamp), lucubrare,
Liv.:
Cic. (
v. to lucubrate,
lucubration):
to pass the n. somewhere, pernoctare alicubi,
Cic. Clu. 13, 37:
Varr.:
lasting all n., pernox:
esp. in phr., luna pernox erat,
it was a moonlight n.,
Liv. 5, 28: but also of other things:
gambling kept up all n., alea pernox,
Juv. 8, 10:
to have a good n., bene quiescere,
Plin. Ep. 3, 16, 4: as an exclam.,
good n.! *bene valeas et quiescas. (For
night in
fig. sense, use tenebrae, caligo:
v. gloom,
darkness.)