σελήν-η, ἡ,
Doric dialect σελάνα [λᾱ] [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10.75 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], Aeolic dialect σελάννα [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 3,53] Refs 7th c.BC+]; compare also σεληναίη:— the moon, σ. πλήθουσα the full-moon, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.484 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; σ. ἀεξομένη, ὀλίγη κεράεσσι, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 780, 733 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; a moon's breadth, measure used by early astronomers, [[ 1st c.BC: Ptolemaeus Epigrammaticus “Alm.” 9.10] Refs 1st c.BC+]; νουμηνία κατὰ σελήνην, i.e. by the lunar month, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.28, compare “SIG” 683.44 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰς ἡμέρας κατὰ σ. ἄγειν [[ 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 1.59, compare “PHib.” 1.27.42 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; πρὸς τὴν σ. ὁρᾶν by moonlight, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.38, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.1.9; ἐν σελήνῃ 3rd c.AD(?): Achilles Tatius Astronomus 3.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ ἐκ τῆς σ. νόσος,= σεληνιασμός, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 14.27 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τὴν σ. καθελεῖν, of Thessalian witches, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 750, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 513a, 2nd c.BC: Sosiphanes Tragicus 1. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__b month, δεκάτῃ σελήνῃ in the tenth moon, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 1126, cf. Alcaeus431, “Tr.” 1075 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πολλὰς σ. [[ [prev. author] “Hel.” 114 ] Refs]; τὰς ἡμέρας τῆς σ. [[ 2nd c.AD: Astrampsychus Onirocriticus “Oracula” p.3 H.; ὁρῶν ἄγουσαν τὴν σ. εἰκάδας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 17. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 a moon-shaped wheaten cake, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 350, compare 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 2.4, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 6.76. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]