Note 508 — Chapter V · LUNAR SUPERSTITIONS AND FESTIVALS
Reading edition
J. Meursius, Græcia feriata, sive de festis Græcorum, Lugduni Batavorum, 1619, pp. 210-214; F. G. Welcker, Griechische Götterlehre, Göttingen, 1857, i, 554 sq.; W. H. Roscher, Über Selene und Verwandtes, pp. 110 sq.; idem, in Philologus, 1898, lvii, 216, 218; E. Saglio, “Noumenia,” Daremberg and Saglio’s Dictionnaire des antiquités grecques et romaines, iv, 108. The word νουμηνία occasionally was used in the sense of the true or astronomical new moon (Thucydides, ii, 28).