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| τῆς γὰρ παρελθούσης νυκτὸς ταυτησί, ἔτι βαθέος ὄρθρου, Ἱπποκράτης, ὁ Ἀπολλοδώρου ὑὸς Φάσωνος δὲ ἀδελφός, τὴν θύραν τῇ βακτηρίᾳ πάνυ σφόδρα ἔκρουε |
| On the previous night to that one, in the very early hours of the morning, Hippocrates, Hippocrates, the son of Apollodorus and the brother of Phason, gave a tremendous thump with his staff at my door. |
| Plato Protagoras 310b (191) |
| ὦ βασιλεῦ, ἐπὶ γῆν γὰρ μέλλεις στρατεύεσθαι τῆς οὔτε ἀρηρομένον φανήσεται οὐδὲν οὔτε πόλις οἰκεομένη· |
| Your royal highness, you are planning to invade a country where you will find no ploughed land nor inhabited city. |
| Herodotus Histories 4.97 (218) |
οὐκ οἶδα πλὴν ἕν, ὅτι θυείαν ἑσπέρας
ὑπερφυᾶ τὸ μέγεθος εἰσηνέγκατο. |
| I don't know except for one thing - last night she brought in a huge great mortar. |
| Aristophanes Peace 227-8 (261) |
| τεκμαίρομαι δὲ ἔκ τινος ἐνυπνίου ὃ ἑώρακα ὀλίγον πρότερον ταύτης τῆς νυκτός· |
| And my reason for this is a dream which I had a little while ago in the course of this night. |
| Plato Crito 43a (356) |
| τῆς γὰρ ἐπιούσης νυκτὸς πάντα ταῦτα δεῖ πεπρᾶχθαι, εἰ δ’ ἔτι περιμενοῦμεν, ἀδύνατον καὶ οὐκέτι οἷόν τε. |
| All this must be done in the coming night. And if we delay it can no longer be done. |
| Plato Crito 46a (408) |
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