Date
Name Proselenos
Gender Feminine
Usage Literature
Scripts Προσέληνος (Greek)
Theme moon
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Meaning & History
From Greek proselênos meaning "older than the moon" or "before the moon", which was "an epithet used of the people of Arcadia, who prided themselves on their antiquity" (Sheard, 2011). This was the name of an elderly witch in Petronius' 1st-century novel 'The Satyricon'.