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.).
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.
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.