Apophrades hemerai
ἀποφράδες ἡμέραι
Apophrades hemerai (ἀποφράδες ἡμέραι), unlucky or unfortunate days (dies nefasti), on which no public business, nor any important affairs of any kind, were transacted at Athens. Such were the last three days but one of every month, and the twenty-fifth day of the month Thargelion, on which the Plynteria were celebrated. (Lys. Fr. 31; Plat. Leg. vii. p. 800 D; Xen. Hellen. I. 4.12; Etym. M. p. 131, 13; Plut. Alc. 34; Lucian, Pseudolog. 13; Schömann, Assemblies, p. 50.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.