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( Îáíèéêüò ), the name of the sixth month among the Seleucid Syrians (2Ma_11:30; 2Ma_11:33; 2Ma_11:38 [2Ma_12:1]), i.e., in the Macedonian calendar (Ideler, Handb. d. Chronol. 1:392 sq.). Josephus makes it parallel with the Jewish Nisan (Ant. 1:3, 3; 3:10, 5; comp. War, 5:3, 1). SEE MONTH.