σεληνίτης

A. moon-stone, selenite, i.e. foliated sulphate of lime, so called because it was supposed to wax and wane with the moon, Dsc. 5.141, Procl. Sacr. p.149 B.

2. οἱ Σεληνῖται the men in the moon, Luc. VH 1.18: fem. ‐ίτιδες, γυναῖκες Herodor. 21 J.

b. a people of Arcadia, Dionys. Chalcidensis ap. A.R. 4.264.