Metageitnion

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Metageitnion ( Greek  Μεταγειτνιών , also in the minor form Μεταγειτονιών , Metageitonion ) was a month in several ancient Greek calendars that are based on the Ionic calendar.

In the Attic calendar Metageitnion was the second, in later counts the twelfth month of the year after the Hekatombaion and before the Boëdromion . In the Julian calendar , it roughly corresponds to the month of August . In Athens the new financial year began with him, in its middle the Mystery Peace , which lasted up to the Mystery of Eleusis in the Boëdromion, began and with its end the military year ended. The name is traced back to the neighboring festival Metageitnia , a festival of sacrifice for Apollon Metageitnios held this month .

The name of the month for Delos is inscribed as the eighth month, in Ephesus , Priene , Samos , Miletus and Miletus, the planting cities of Kyzikos , Olbia and Leros . In the variant Pedagaitnios ( Πεδαγαίτνιος , also Πεδαγαίτνυος , Pedagaitnuos ) the month also appears in the calendars of Chalcedon , Kos , Kalymnos and Rhodes .

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