twilight
twilight
subs.
Time just before dawn: P. and V. ὄρθρος, ὁ, P. τό περίορθρον.
Darkness: Ar. and V. κνέφᾰς, τό (also Xen.).
subs.
Time just before dawn: P. and V. ὄρθρος, ὁ, P. τό περίορθρον.
Darkness: Ar. and V. κνέφᾰς, τό (also Xen.).
TWILIGHT
lux incerta or dubia (poetical): lumen incertum or obscurum. In the cold zones there prevails only a kind of twilight from the frozen snow in zonis frigidis maligna est ac pruina tantum albicans lux (Plin. 2 68 68): it was already seven o’clock and there was still only a feeble twilight jam hora diei prima et adhuc dubius et quasi languidus dies (Plin. Ep. 6 20 6). Morning twilight diluculum: evening twilight crepusculum (the proper word): tenebrae (shades of evening).
lux incerta or dubia (poetical): lumen incertum or obscurum. In the cold zones there prevails only a kind of twilight from the frozen snow in zonis frigidis maligna est ac pruina tantum albicans lux (Plin. 2 68 68): it was already seven o’clock and there was still only a feeble twilight jam hora diei prima et adhuc dubius et quasi languidus dies (Plin. Ep. 6 20 6). Morning twilight diluculum: evening twilight crepusculum (the proper word): tenebrae (shades of evening).
twilight:
1. crĕpuscŭlum (of evening): Pl. Casin. prol. 40: Plin.: Ov.
2. dīlūcŭlum (early dawn): Cic. Rosc. Am. 7, 19: Plaut.
3. primae tenebrae: Liv. 31, 23.
4. obscūra lux: at sunset when it was already t., per occasum solis jam o. luce, Liv. 24, 21. Phr.: t., dubiae crepuscula lucis, Ov. Met. 11, 596; cum luce dubiae confinia noctis, ib. 4, 401: in the cold zones there prevails only a kind of t. from the frozen snow, in zonis frigidis maligna est ac pruina tantum albicans lux, Plin. 2, 68, 68: there was still only a feeble t., adhuc dubius et quasi languidus dies, Plin. Ep. 6, 20.
1. crĕpuscŭlum (of evening): Pl. Casin. prol. 40: Plin.: Ov.
2. dīlūcŭlum (early dawn): Cic. Rosc. Am. 7, 19: Plaut.
3. primae tenebrae: Liv. 31, 23.
4. obscūra lux: at sunset when it was already t., per occasum solis jam o. luce, Liv. 24, 21. Phr.: t., dubiae crepuscula lucis, Ov. Met. 11, 596; cum luce dubiae confinia noctis, ib. 4, 401: in the cold zones there prevails only a kind of t. from the frozen snow, in zonis frigidis maligna est ac pruina tantum albicans lux, Plin. 2, 68, 68: there was still only a feeble t., adhuc dubius et quasi languidus dies, Plin. Ep. 6, 20.