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ἐπιμήνι-ος , ον,
A.monthly, χρεῶν -ίων τόκοι Hondius Novae Inscriptiones Atticae91; holding office for a month, πολέμαρχος, προμνήμων, at Chios, SIG402.1, 443.1,2 (iii B.C.); ἐπιμήνιοι, οἱ, monthly officers, ib.58.5 (Milet., v B.C.), OGI229.30(Smyrna, iii B.C.): sg., IG12(2).645b38 (Nesos); ἐ. τῶν “ταμιῶν” SIG426.27 (Bargylia, iii B.C.).
2.. priests who offered the ἐπιμήνια, Hsch.; “ἐπιμηνίους . . οἵτινες ἐχθυσεῦνται τὰ ἱερὰ μετὰ τοῦ ἱερέως” SIG1106.63 (Cos), cf. 1044.24 (Halic.), Test.Epict.2.33.
II.. ἐπιμήνια, τά,
1.. (sc. ἱερά) monthly offerings, Hdt.8.41, Inscr. ap. Ath. 6.234e.
2.. provisions, monthly ration, POxy.531.17 (ii A.D.), etc.; also “ἐ. ὀψώνια” PLond.2.190.16 (iii A.D.); “ὁ ἐ. σῖτος” Plu.Flam.5; ὁ λόγος ὁ ἐ. the monthly account, SIG578.54 (Teos, ii B.C.).
b.. simply, provisions, for a ship, Plb.31.12.13, Sor.1.19.
3.. monthly courses of women, Hp.Nat.Mul.13, Sor.1.19 (sg.); ἐπιμήνιον (sc. αἷμα), τό, Dsc.2.79; “κάθαρσις ἐπιμηνίων” Aret.SA1.9.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.41
    • Polybius, Histories, 31.12.13
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 1), 1.9
    • Plutarch, Titus Flamininus, 5
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