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ἡμέρα , Ep. and Ion. ἡμέρη IG12(5).1（Ios), Dor. ἀμέρα ib.5(1).213.43,al., 1390.109, 1432.25, Test.Epict.4.12, Michel995A 32, etc., Locr. ἀμάρα IG9(1).334.42 (aspirated perh. only in Att. and West Ion., cf.
A.“ἐπάμερος” Pi., etc., “αὐθημερόν” IG7.235.18 (Oropus), etc.; usu. unaspirated in early Att. Inscrr., IG12.49.6, al.; aspirated in codd. even in dialects: original ἀμέρα prob. took aspirate from ἑσπέρα): ἡ:—day, less freq. than ἦμαρ in Hom., “ἡ. ἥδε κακὸν φέρει” Il.8.541, 13.828; τίς νύ μοι ἡ. ἥδε; Od.24.514; νύκτες τε καὶ ἡ. 14.93; μῆνές τε καὶ ἡ. ib.293; “νοῦσοι ἐφ᾽ ἡμέρῃ αἳ δ᾽ ἐπὶ νυκτί” Hes.Op.102; ἡ σήμερον ἡ., v. σήμερον: ἅμα ἡμέρᾳ or ἅμα τῇ ἡμέρᾳ at daybreak, X.An.6.3.6, Aeschin.3.76; “ἅμ᾽ ἡμέρῃ διαφωσκούσῃ” Hdt.3.86; ἡ. διέλαμψεν, ἐξέλαμψεν, ὑπέφαινε, Ar.Pl.744, Pax304, X.Cyr.4.5.14; τῆς ἡ. ὀψέ late in the day, Id.HG2.1.23.
2. sts. like Ep. ἦμαρ, with Adjs. to describe a state or time of life, ἐπίπονος ἁ. a life of misery, S.Tr.654 (lyr.); λυπρὰν ἄγειν ἡ. E. Hec.364; ἐχθρὰ ἡ. Id.Ph.540; παλαιὰ ἁ. old age, S.Aj.623 (but θεία ἡ. Id.Fr.950 is dub. l.); τερμία ἁ. Id.Ant.1330 (lyr.); αἱ μακραὶ ἁμέραι length of days, Id.OC1216(lyr.); νέα ἁ. youth, E.Ion720(lyr.); so τῇ πρώτῃ ἡ. Arist.Rh.1389a24; ἐπὶ τῇ τελευταίᾳ ἡ. at the close of life, ib.1389b33, cf. S.OT1529; ζοὴν βλέπουσιν ἡ. look life-like, Herod.4.68.
3. poet. for time, “ἡ. κλίνει τε κἀνάγει πάλιν ἅπαντα τἀνθρώπεια” S.Aj.131; “ἐς τόδ᾽ ἡμέρας” Id.OC1138: pl., ἐν ἡμέραις τινός in the days of . . , LXX 1 Ch.4.41, etc.; ἡ. ἀρχαῖαι ib.Ps.142(143).5.
4. birthday, D.L.4.41.
5. a fixed day, τακτὴ ἡ. Act.Ap.12.21; ῥητὴ ἡ. Luc.Alex.19; “ἡ. ἔστησαν ἀρχαιρεσιῶν” D.H.6.48, cf. Act.Ap.17.31; “ἡ. Κυρίου” LXXJl.2.1, cf. 2 Ep.Pet.3.12, etc.; “ἡ. κρίσεως” Ev.Matt.10.15: so abs., ὑπὸ ἀνθρωπίνης ἡμέρας a human tribunal, 1 Ep.Cor.4.3; “ἡμέραι καὶ ἀγῶνες” Jahresh.23Beibl.93 (Pamphyl.).
6. in pl., age, προβεβηκὼς ἐν ταῖς ἡ. Ev.Luc.1.7, cf. LXXGe.47.8, etc.
II. abs. usages,
1. gen., τριῶν ἡμερέων within three days, Hdt.2.115, cf. Th.7.3; ἡμερῶν ὀλίγων within a few days, Id.4.26, etc.; ἄλλης ἡ. another day, S.El.698; τῆς αὐτῆς ἡ. Isoc.4.87; “μιᾶς ἀμέρας” IG5(1).213.43 (Sparta, V B.C.); ἡμέρας by day, opp. νυκτός, S.Fr.65; “οὔθ᾽ ἡμέρας οὔτε νυκτός” Pl.Phdr.240c; τοὺς . . τῆς ἡ. ἄρτους δ_ daily, UPZ 47.21 (ii B.C.); δὶς τῆς ἡμέρης ἑκάστης twice every day, Hdt.2.37; δίς τῆς ἡ. Pl.Com.207; πεντάκις τῆς ἡ. Men.326; κατεσθίω . . τῆς ἡ. πένθ᾽ ἡμιμέδιμνα five every day, Pherecr.1.
2. dat., τῇδε θἠμέρᾳ,= σήμερον, (S.OT1283; “τῇ τόθ᾽ ἡ” Id.El.1134.
3. acc., πᾶσαν ἡ. any day, i.e. soon, Hdt.1.111, 7.203; τὴν μὲν αὐτίχ᾽ ἡ. S.OC433; ὅλην τὴν ἡ. Eup.233; τρίτην ἡ. ἥκων two days after one's arrival, Th.8.23; “οὐδεμίαν ἡ. ὑπεύθυνος εἶναί φημι” D.18.112; πέντε ἡμέρας during five days, Th.8.103; τὰς ἡ. in the daytime, X.Cyr.1.3.12; τὴν ἡ. daily, LXXEx. 29.38.
III. with Preps., μίαν ἀν᾽ ἁμέραν on one day, Pi.O.9.85; ἀνὰ πᾶσαν ἡ. every day, Hdt.7.198; ἀφ᾽ ἡμέρας τῆς νῦν from this day, S.OT351; but ἀφ᾽ ἡμέρας γίνεσθαι ἐν τῷ Μουσείῳ from early in the day, Plb.8.25.11: δι᾽ ἡμέρης, Att. -ρας, the whole day long, Hdt.1.97, 2.173, Pherecr.64, Ar.Ra.260(lyr.); διὰ τρίτης ἡ. every other day, Hdt. 2.37; διὰ πολλῶν ἡ. at a distance of many days, Th.2.29; “δι᾽ ἡμερῶν τινων” Thphr.HP4.3.6; εἰς´ ἡμέραν yearly, LXXJd.17.10; ἐν ἡμέρῃ in a single day, Hdt.1.126, cf. Men.Pk.377; “ἐνἡ. μιᾷ” S.OT615; τῇδ᾽ ἐν ἡ. Id.OC1612; ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡ. Ev.Jo.14.20; ἐν ἑστέραισιν ἡ. A.Ag.1666; ἐν ὀκτὼ ἡ. Lys.20.10; but ἐν τρισὶν ἡ. within three days, Ev.Jo.2.19; ἐξ ἡμέρας by day, οὔτε νυκτὸς οὔτ᾽ ἐξ ἡ. S.El.780; ἡμέραν ἐξ ἡμέρας day after day, Henioch.5.13, LXXGe.39.10, 2 Ep.Pet.2.8 (but “ἐξ ἡμερῶν εἰς ἡμέρας” LXX 2 Ch.21.15); ἐπ᾽ ἡμέρην ἔχειν, ἐφ᾽ -ραν χρῆσθαι, sufficient for the day, Hdt.1.32, Th.4.69; “τὸ γὰρ βρότειον σπέρμ᾽ ἐφ᾽ ἡ. φρονεῖ” A. Fr.399; “τῆς ἐφ᾽ ἡ. βορᾶς” E.El.429; but τοὐφ᾽ ἡμέραν day by day, Id.Cyc. 336: c. dat., ἐπ᾽ ἡμέρῃ ἑκάστῃ (v.l. -ρης -της) every day, Hdt.5.117; “ὁ ἥλιος νέος ἐφ᾽ ἡμέρῃ” Heraclit.6; καθ᾽ ἡμέραν by day, A.Ch.818 (lyr.); καθ᾽ ἡ. τὴν νῦν to-day, S.OC3, Aj.801; but καθ᾽ ἡ. commonly means day by day, IG12.84.40, etc.; καθ᾽ ἡ. ἀεί [S.]Fr.1120.4: with Art., “τὸν καθ᾽ ἡ. βίον” Id.OC1364; “ἡ καθ᾽ ἡ. ἀναγκαία τροφή” Th.1.2; “τὰ καθ᾽ ἡ. ἐπιτηδεύματα” Id.2.37; “τὸ καθ᾽ ἡ. ἀδεές” Id.3.37, etc.; τὸ καθ᾽ ἡ. every day, Ar.Eq.1126 (lyr.), etc.; also “τὰ καθ᾽ ἑκάστην τὴν ἡ. ἐπιτηδεύματα” Isoc.4.78; μετ᾽ ἡμέρην in broad daylight, opp. νυκτός, Hdt.2.150, cf. Ar.Pl.930; opp. νύκτωρ, Aeschin.3.77; μεθ᾽ ἡμέρας some days after, LXXJd.15.1; ἡμέρα παρ᾽ ἡμέραν γιγνομένη day following on day, Antipho 5.72; but παρ᾽ ἡμέραν every other day, Dsc.3.137, Luc.DDeor.24.2; “παρ᾽ ἡ. ἄρχειν” Plu.Fab.15; “καθ᾽ ἡμέραν εἰώθειν ὀργίζεσθαι, νῦν παρ᾽ ἡμέραν, εἶτα παρὰ δύο, εἶτα παρὰ τρεῖς” Arr.Epict.2.18.13; πρὸ ἡμέρας before day-break, Diph.22; but πρὸ ἀμερᾶν δέκα ἤ κα μέλλωντι ἀναγινώσκεν GDI5040.42 (Crete); “πρὸ ἡμερῶν ἑπτὰ εἰδυῶν Ὀκτωμβρίων” SIG646.2 (Thisbe, ii B.C.); γίγνεται, ἔστι πρὸς ἡμέραν, towards day, near day, X.HG2.4.6, Lys.1.14; also, for the day, daily, Charito 4.2.
IV. as pr. n., the goddess of day, Hes.Th.124.
2. v. ἥμερος 11.
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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