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Μεταγείτν-ιος

*metageitnios · ὁ

changed their neighbours

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What it meant

Μεταγείτν-ιος · Metageitn-ios — LSJ

changed their neighbours

epith. of Apollo at Athens, Lysim. 21, Suid. s.v. Μεταγειτνιών:—hence Μεταγειτν-ιών, ῶνος, ὁ, second month of the Attic year, Antipho 6.44, Arist. HA 549a16, Plu. Publ. 14; also at Delos, IG ΙΙ(2).203 A 32 (iii B. C.), and in Ionic cities, as Priene, SIG 278.2 (iv B. C.), Miletus, ib. 633.75 (ii B. C.); cf. Πεδαγείτνιος. (Derived by Gramm. from μετά, γείτων, because people changed their neighbours: gen. sg. written τοῦ Μεταγειτο IG 2(2).1672.34.)

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