ἡμέρα
I. "day", Hom., etc.:—phrases for "day-break", ἅμα ἡμέρᾳ or ἅμα τῇ ἡμέρᾳ Xen.; ἡμ. διαλάμπει or ἐκλάμπει Ar.; ἡμ. ὑποφαίνεται Xen.; γίγνεται or ἐστὶ πρὸς ἡμέραν id=Xen.
2. with Adjs. to describe "a state or time of life", ἐπίπονος ἡμ. "a life" of misery, Soph.; λυπρὰν ἄγειν ἡμ. Eur.; αἱ μακραὶ ἡμέραι length of "days", Soph.; νέα ἡμ. youth, Eur.
3. poet. for "time", ἡμ. κλίνει τε κἀνάγει πάλιν ἅπαντα τἀνθρώπεια Soph.
II. absol. usages,
1. in gen., τριῶν ἡμερέων "within" three "days", Hdt.; ἡμερῶν ὀλίγων "within" a few "days", Thuc.: —also, ἡμέρας "by day", Plat.; δὶς τῆς ἡμέρης ἑκάστης twice every "day", Hdt.
2. in dat., τῇδε τῇ ἡμέρᾳ "on" this "day", Soph.; so, τῇδ᾽ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ id=Soph.
3. in acc., πᾶσαν ἡμ. all "day", Hdt.; τρίτην ἡμ. ἥκων three "days" after one's arrival, Thuc.; τὰς ἡμέρας "in daytime" Xen.
III. with Preps., ἀνὰ πᾶσαν ἡμ. every "day", Hdt.:— δι᾽ ἡμέρης, attic -ρας, the whole "day" long, id=Hdt.; διὰ τρίτης ἡμ. every third "day", Lat. tertio quoque die, id=Hdt.; δι᾽ ἡμ. πολλῶν at a distance of many "days", Thuc.: — ἐξ ἡμέρας by "day", Soph.:— ἐφ᾽ ἡμέραν "sufficient for the day", Hdt., etc.; but, τοὐφ᾽ ἡμέραν "day by day", Eur.:— καθ᾽ ἡμέραν "by day", Aesch.; but commonly "day by day, daily", Soph., etc.; τὸ καθ᾽ ἡμ., absol., "every day", Ar., etc.;— μεθ᾽ ἡμέραν at mid- "day", Hdt., etc.