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Μαιμακτηριών

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Μαιμακτηριών Μαιμακτηριῶνος

Structure: Μαιμακτηριων (Stem)

Etym.: from Maima/kths

Sense

  1. the fifth Attic month

Examples

  • ἀπὸ γὰρ μηνὸσ ὃν καλοῦσιν Ἀθηναῖοι μαιμακτηριῶνα τῶν ἑπτὰ τῶν κατὰ τὴν ἄρκτον ἀστέρων οὐδένα φασὶν ὁρᾶσθαι μέχρι τῆσ πρώτησ φυλακῆσ, τῷ δὲ ποσειδεῶνι μέχρι δευτέρασ, καὶ κατὰ τοὺσ ἑξῆσ ἐκ τοῦ κατ’ ὀλίγον ἀθεωρήτουσ ὑπάρχειν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 48 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. the fifth Attic month

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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