phenomenonMidnightCosmosThe midpoint of night in civil clocks. Not night itself, and not a witching-hour dump alone.Roman religionMidnight appears in Roman religion.Pliny’s Natural History marks midnight among the night’s hinges. A named midnight point in that encyclopedia, not night as the whole span and not noon.from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CEappears in · sourced · documentedsourcesNatural History · Pliny the ElderPliny, Naturalis Historia.