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[Meaning] the night.[1]
In the Epigrams: "and it flattened my hair, which I had only just curled [to last] for three daybreaks."[2]
Daybreak then [is] the end of night.
"The light of day had not yet shone out, but night was still [sc. proceeding] towards daybreak and was ceasing."[3]

*)amfilu/kh: h( nu/c. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: a)ma/qune de\ xai/thn, h(\n mo/lis e)s trissh\n ple/camen a)mfilu/khn. *)amfilu/kh ou)=n to\ te/los th=s nukto/s. h(me/ra de\ u(pe/fainen ou)/pw lampra/, a)ll' e)/ti pro\s a)mfilu/khn h)=n h( nu\c kai\ a)pe/lhgen.

[1] The phrase a)mfilu/kh nu/c occurs in Homer, Iliad 7.433; cf. Latte on Hesychius s.v.
[2] Greek Anthology 5.281.3-4 (Paul the Silentiary), coming from an all-night symposium, the poet attempts to post a bouquet on the door of his love interest, but she dumps a jug of water on his head.
[3] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable

Elizabeth Vandiver (Added keyword) on 17 August 2000@21:01:44.
David Whitehead (modified translation; added note; cosmetics) on 7 June 2002@08:01:09.
David Whitehead (added note and keyword) on 28 July 2002@06:04:05.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; augmented n.3; more keywords) on 25 February 2011@06:42:52.
David Whitehead on 27 February 2011@04:55:50.
David Whitehead on 21 February 2012@05:15:56.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 4 March 2012@01:03:26.
David Whitehead on 24 June 2015@03:00:44.
Catharine Roth (more coding) on 24 June 2015@12:48:32.
Ronald Allen (fixed Anthology reference, augmented n.2) on 5 August 2023@16:23:55.
Ronald Allen (tweaked translation in consultation with Managing Editor Catharine Roth; expanded n.2, added keyword) on 5 August 2023@21:17:32.

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