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1. setting
1.a setting astronomical event
Ἐμοὶ γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρες, ὅπερ καὶ πρότερον εἶπον, φίλος ὢν Σώστρατος καὶ οἰκείως διακείμενος ἀπαντήσας ἐξ ἀγροῦ περὶ ἡλίου δυσμὰς συνεδείπνει, καὶ ἐπειδὴ καλῶς εἶχεν αὐτῷ, ἀπιὼν ᾤχετο.
‘For, gentleman, as I have said before as well, Sostratos, being a friend of mine and disposed as a house friend, came from the country to meet me around sunset and had dinner with me, and after it had been going well for him, he departed and left.’
2. west
2.a west cardinal direction
often as compound ἡλίου δυσμή (setting of the sun)
Ὡς δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ Στρυμόνος ἐπορεύετο ὁ στρατός, ἐνθαῦτα πρὸς ἡλίου δυσμέων ἐστὶ αἰγιαλὸς ἐν τῷ οἰκημένην Ἄργιλον πόλιν Ἑλλάδα παρεξήιε· αὕτη δὲ καὶ ἡ κατύπερθε ταύτης καλέεται Βισαλτίη.
‘And as the army marched from the Strumon, it passed Argilos, there in the west is a sea-shore on which it is situated, a Greek city: and this itself and its upper country are called Bisaltiē.’
APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2024). δυσμή (Lemma #414). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/414/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2024). δυσμή (Lemma #414). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/414/
MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2024). δυσμή (Lemma #414). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/414/
Harvard
Peeters, T. (2024) δυσμή (Lemma #414), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/414/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX
@misc{zodiac414,
note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
author = {Peeters, Thomas},
year = {2024},
title = {δυσμή ({Lemma} #414)},
url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/414/},
howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/414/},
}