λυκάβας

English (LSJ)

[κᾰ], αντος, ὁ,

   A year, τοῦδ' αὐτοῦ λυκάβαντος ἐλεύσεται ἐνθάδ' Ὀδυσσεύς within this very year, Od.14.161, 19.306 (but 'this very month' acc. to D.Chr.7.84; perh. day, if Od.14.161-2 are spurious); εἶαρ . . ὅλῳ λ. παρείη Bion Fr.15.15; αὖθι μένων λυκάβαντα for a year, A.R.1.198; but acc. λυκάβαν IG12(2).129 (Mytilene, late):—the word is freq. in metr. epitaphs, ib.4.622 (Argos), Epigr.Gr.231 (Chios), 228 (Ephesus): hence    II λῠκᾰβαντίδες ὧραι, αἱ, the hours that make up the year, AP5.12 (Phld.). (Arc. word, = ἐνιαυτός, acc. to AB1095.)