Meanings
- not comparablepoeticWandering at night; noctivagant.
And Phoebe the benign in her nightwandering chariot / Was trampling the midheaven.
1961 [29–19 BCE], Virgil, translated by Patric Dickinson, Aeneid, London: Penguin Group, page 2222 more examples
Who are the agyrtai and manteis mentioned by Plato? Whether we translate them as 'nightwandering wizards' or as 'itinerant diviners and magicians', they remain shadowy figures, working at the margins of society.
1999, Valerie Flint, Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Ancient Greece and Rome, London: University of London Press, →ISBN, page 103Some man that wayfaring is stands by your spousehouse at midnight's coming, a nightwandering Israelite.
2009, Roberta Kalechofsky, Orestes in Progress, Marblehead, MA.: Micah Publications, →ISBN, page 123
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Compound of night + wandering.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French noctivague
- noctivaguewandering at night
Italian nottivago
- nottivagowandering at night
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