The corpus record

νύκτερος

nukteros

by night

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Where it lives

Rhesus 4 · 7.44/10k
Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
Frogs 1 · 1.1/10k

What it meant

νύκτερος · nykteros — LSJ

by night

= νυκτερινός, μήνη A. Pr. 797 ; ὀνείρατα Id. Pers. 176 ; ἄστρων . . νυκτέρων ὁμήγυριν Id. Ag. 4 ; ναυκληρία S. Fr. 143 ; δεῖμα Id. El. 410 ; ν. ἀπελωβήθη by night, Id. Aj. 217 (anap.); φύλακες E. Rh. 87 : also in late Prose, ν. κοίτη Luc. Am. 39 : neut. as Adv., νύκτερον ἀείδουσα Arat. 1023.

In the wild

νυκτέρων · nykterōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1–9
νυκτέροις · nykterois Aeschylus, Persians 176–178
νύκτερος · nykteros Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 790–797
νύκτερον · nykteron Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 364–368
νυκτέρου · nykterou Aristophanes, Frogs 340–342
νυκτέροισιν · nykteroisin Euripides, Rhesus *(hni/oxos (DIORISIS sentence 498)

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Where it came from

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