συσκοτάζω

A. make dark, τὰ ἄστρα LXX Ez. 32.7; ἡμέραν εἰς νύκτα ς. ib.Am. 5.8.

II. intr., grow quite dark, ὁ οὐρανὸς ς. νεφέλαις ib. 3 Ki. 18.45, cf. Jl. 3.15, al.:—but,

2. in early writers, always impers., ξυσκοτάζει (sc. ὁ θεός) it grows dark, Th. 1.51, 7.73, cf. X. Cyr. 7.5.15, etc.; ἤδη συσκοτάζοντος (sc. τοῦ θεοῦ) when it was now getting dark, Lys. Fr. 75.4, cf. Diocl.Fr. 141; συσκοτάζοντος ἄρτι τοῦ θεοῦ Plb. 31.13.9.