[88\5: ~ta\ neku/sia tê=| triaka/di a/getai~: Plu., _Prov. Alex._ viii, p. 6, 10 Crus. (App. prov. Vat. in Schneidewin's Crit. App. to Diogen. viii, 39). There was a festival kept by servants in honour of their dead masters (~allathea/des~, _GDI._ 1731, 10; 1775, 29; 1796, 6) twice monthly, at the ~_noumêni/a_~ and on the seventh: _GDI._ 1801, 6-7 Delphi. The last three days of the month are at Athens sacred to the inhabitants of the lower world and therefore ~apophra/des~: _EM._ 131, 13 f.; _E. Gud._ 70, 3 ff.; cf. Lys., _fr._ 53. On these days banquets were prepared, at the crossroads, etc., for Hekate (acc. to Ath. 325 A, for Hekate ~kai\ toi=s apotropai/ois~ (Plu., _Symp._ 7, 6, p. 709 A). The souls of the dead were then not forgotten. Sch. Pl., _Lg._ vii, 800 D, ~apophra/des hême/rai en hai=s toi=s katoichome/nois choa\s epiphe/rousin~.] {197} [89\5: The son ~enagi/zei kath' he/kaston eniauto/n~ to his dead father, Is. 2, 46. This sacrifice to the dead, celebrated once every year (~thusi/a epe/teios~ offered by a ~pai=s patri/~), is the festival of the _~Gene/sia~_, in vogue acc. to Hdt. iv, 26, among the Greeks, everywhere as it appears. As the name shows this festival fell on the birthday of the honoured ancestor as it recurred (not on the day of his death as Amm. pp. 34-5 Valck. incorrectly says); cf. Schol. Pl., _Alc._ i, 121 C. So Epicurus in his will (D.L. x, 18) provides for a yearly celebration of his birthday. (Similar foundation, _CIG._ 3417.) The Koans ~enagi/zousi~ to Hippokrates every year on the 27th Agrianos as his birthday: Soran., _V.Hp._, p. 450, 13-14 West. Hero-festivals, too, fall on the birthday of the Hero: Plu., _Arat._ 53. Gods have their feast-days and their birthdays combined; thus Hermes has his on the 4th of the month, Artemis on the 6th, Apollo on the 7th, and so on. These are birthday festivals repeated every month. In the second century at Sestos, following such precedents, there was held ~ta\ gene/thlia tou= basile/ôs~ (one of the deified Attalids) ~kath' he/kaston mê=na~: _SIG._^1 246, 36. Celebration of the ~e/mmênos gene/sios~ of the ruling Emperor: _Ins. Perg._ ii, 374 B, 14. Even in later times in imitation of heathen usage the Kephallenians still honour Epiphanes, son of Karpokrates, ~kata\ _noumêni/an, gene/thlion_ apothe/ôsin~, Clem. Al., _Str._ iii, p. 511 P.]