phenomenon

Night

Cosmos

The dark half of the civil day when the sun is below the horizon. Not void, and not midnight as the midpoint alone.

Roman religion

  • Night appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats night among the divisions of civil and natural time. A named night span in that encyclopedia, not moon as the body and not midnight alone.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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