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πανσέληνος or πασσ- (Arist.APo.93a37 cod. A), ον, of the moon,
A.at the full, “ἡ σελήνη ἐτύγχανε οὖσα π.” Th.7.50; κύκλος π. the moon's full orb, E.Ion1155; “τὰς νύκτας τὰς π.” Arist.HA622b27.
2. ἡ πανσέληνος (sc. ὥρα) the time of full moon, Hdt.2.47, 6.120, Ar.Ach.84; τὰν αὔριον π. (s. v.l.) at to-morrow's full moon, S.OT1090 (lyr.): without the Art., “πανσέληνος” A.Th.389, And.1.38; ταῖς πανσελήνοις or ἐν ταῖς π. at the seasons of full moon, Arist.HA544a20, 555a10, cf. Stoic.1.34; πανσέληνον, τό, Apollon.Mir.36.
II. round as the full moon, “χρυσίς” Hermipp.37 (dub. l.).
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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