nightwandering

English

Etymology

Compound of night +‎ wandering.

Adjective

nightwandering (not comparable)

1. (poetic) Wandering at night; noctivagant.
   • 1961 [29–19 BCE], Virgil, translated by Patric Dickinson, Aeneid, London: Penguin Group, page 222:

     And Phoebe the benign in her nightwandering chariot / Was trampling the midheaven.

   • 1999, Valerie Flint, Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Ancient Greece and Rome, London: University of London Press, →ISBN, page 103:

     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.

   • 2009, Roberta Kalechofsky, Orestes in Progress, Marblehead, MA.: Micah Publications, →ISBN, page 123:

     Some man that wayfaring is stands by your spousehouse at midnight's coming, a nightwandering Israelite.

Translations

wandering at night

• French: noctivague (fr)
• Italian: nottivago