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686 EPISTLE OF S. POLYCARP.
in assigning to it a place different from that which it has in the Macedonian
list. Its position, as I have given it, seems to be determined by the
fact that in the closely allied Samian calendar (see Ahrens i.e. p. 329 sq)
Panemus is succeeded immediately by Cronion iJ\.a.vy]iLov koX Kpovtwvos),
and Cronion is followed by an intercalation (e/x/SoXt'/xon).
Two months
however, the first and last, in this Cyzicene calendar remain still
unnamed. The first was probably Boi^Spo/xtcoV originally, and may
perhaps have been changed afterwards, as at Ephesus, into Nco-
Kataapewv; the last may have been Metageitnion or Metageitonion,
as at Ephesus and Priene (see Journ. of HeUe7i. Studies iv. p. 239), or
Cronion, as at Samos. The month Taureon appears likewise at Priene
{Journ. of Hell. Stud. iv. p. 238, v. p. 61) and at Samos (Ahrens p. 329)'.
Again Calamseon has been found hitherto only at Cyzicus and Olbia, and
seems therefore to have been derived from Miletus, of which they were
both colonies (Ahrens p. 335). It is
wrongly given by Boeckh (11.
p. 598 sq) as an Ephesian months (5) The list of Ephesian months
is taken from Greek Inscr. of Brit. Mus. iii. p. 78. The editor
Mr Hicks has gathered the names together from the inscriptions.
The first month NeoKato-apecoV is his restoration from a comparison
of two fragmentary passages [M]HN02 NEOK[AI2APEON02] and
[NE0]KAI2APEfi[N]. As this name is found likewise at Teira near
Tralles {Bull, de Corresf. Archeol. in. p. 57, 1878; 'Wova-fiov /cat
Bl^Xlo97]kt] k.t.X. II. i. p. 116 sq, Smyrna 1876), there can hardly
be any doubt about the restoration here. We may conjecture that,
like the corresponding Casarius in the 'Asiatic' calendar,
it was substituted
for BorjdpoixLwv when the solar calendar was introduced into
Ephesus under Augustus. (6) The data for the Smyrnsean months are
of his
very scanty. Aristides, a Pergamene who spent a large portion
time at Smyrna, speaks of two successive winter months as Poseideon
and Lenseon. Lenaeon is mentioned likewise in a Smyrngean inscription
(C. I. G. 3137). Philostratus also mentions the month Anthesterion
in reference to Smyrna {Vit. Soph. i. 25). The inscription giving He-
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As we seem forced by the evidence in honour of Poseidon, of which we hear
to put
it in the place of Munychion, the at Ephesus and elsewhere,
-
name would appear to be connected with The inscription C.I.G. 2953 b, which
Artemis Tauropolos or Tauro (see Preller Boeckh assigns to Ephesus, is no wgenerally
Gricch. Mytlwl. I. p. 241, who however allowed to be Delian (see Ilomolle Bull.
wrongly identifies Taureon with Elaphe- d: Corresp. Hellen. Ii. p. 333 sq, V. p. 26,
bolion), since this goddess had a festival Clodius Fasti lonici p. 22), and the muin
Munychion. Otherwise we should na- tilated name of the month is correctly
turally with Ahrens (p. 332) connect it restored not KAAAMAIt2N but FAAASwith
the Tai'pfia, a well-kncnvn festival ION.