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“nox”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“nox”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"nox", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
nox in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
a star-light night: nox sideribus illustris
till late at night: ad multam noctem
in the silence of the night: silentio noctis
night and day: noctes diesque, noctes et dies, et dies et noctes, dies noctesque, diem noctemque
to prolong a conversation far into the night: sermonem producere in multam noctem (Rep. 6. 10. 10)
night breaks up the sitting: nox senatum dirimit
(ambiguous) while it is still night, day: de nocte, de die
(ambiguous) late at night: multa de nocte
(ambiguous) in the dead of night; at midnight: intempesta, concubia nocte
“nox”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“nox”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray