Dioscorinthius
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Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [1]
DIOSCORINTHIUS . See Time.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [2]
dı̄ -os -kō̇ -rin´thi -us : A certain (unidentified) month (2 Macc 11:21). See Calendar; Time .
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
(Διοσκορίνθιος, Vulg. Dioscorus) occurs in 2 Maccabees 11:21, as the name of a Graeco-Seleucid month. Inasmuch as Dius (Δῖος ) is the name of a well-known Macedonian month (the first of the year), which Josephus (Ant. 1:3, 3) says corresponds with the Jewish Miarchesvan, the name has been regarded (see Wernsdorf, Defide Maccab. page 32) as a corruption (through the form Διόσκουρος ) for that month (Scaliger, Emend. Temp. 2:94), and by others as an intercalary month (but see Ideler, Chronolog. 1:399). (See Month).
