DIOSCORINTHIUS.See Time.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
dı̄-os-kō̇-rin?thi-us: A certain (unidentified) month (2 Macc 11:21). See CALENDAR; TIME.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Dioscorinthius
(Διοσκορίνθιος, Vulg. Dioscorus) occurs in 2Ma_11:21, as the name of a Graeco-Seleucid month. Inasmuch as Dius (Δῖος) is the name of a well-known Macedonian month (the first of the year), which Josephus (Ant. 1:3, 3) says corresponds with the Jewish Miarchesvan, the name has been regarded (see Wernsdorf, Defide Maccab. page 32) as a corruption (through the form Διόσκουρος) for that month (Scaliger, Emend. Temp. 2:94), and by others as an intercalary month (but see Ideler, Chronolog. 1:399). SEE MONTH.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.