McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Lampadon Hemera

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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Lampadon Hemera


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(from ëáìðÜò , a torch and ἡìÝñá , a day), the name given to the fifth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries (q.v.), because on that day the initiated marched two and two in procession, each with a torch in his hand, into the temple of Ceres at Eleusis.