ἑαυτοῦ
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Parallels
Plato, Tim. 39c4 (ἐνιαυτὸς δὲ ὁπόταν ἥλιος τὸν ἑαυτοῦ περιέλθῃ κύκλον); Philo Judaeus, De specialibus legibus 4, 235 (ἐκπληροῖ τὸν ἐνιαυτόν, ὅς, καθάπερ αὐτὸ μηνύει τοὔνομα, αὐτὸς ἐν ἑαυτῷ πάντα περιέχει συμπεραιούμενος); Achilles Tatius, Isagoga excerpta 19 (ἐνιαυτὸς δὲ ἡλίου εἴρηται, ἐπεὶ ἔχει τὰς πάσας ὥρας ἐν ἑαυτῶι τέσσαρας); Joannes Chrysostomus, In sanctum pascha 19, 1 (ἐνιαυτὸς γὰρ χρόνου μέτρον ἐν γῇ, ἑαυτὸν ἐπιλαμβάνων καὶ εἰς ἑαυτὸν ἀνακυκλούμενος); Joannes Lydus, De mensibus 3, 4 (καὶ ταύτῃ ἐνιαυτὸς ὠνομάσθη, παρὰ τὸ ἐν ἑαυτῷ κινεῖσθαι αὐτόν· κύκλος γάρ ἐστιν ἐφ’ ἑαυτὸν εἰλούμενος); Choeroboscus, Epimerismi in Psalmos, p. 153 (παρὰ τὸ ἐν ἑαυτῷ εἰληφέναι τοὺς μῆνας καὶ τοὺς χρόνους); Epimerismi homerici, epsilon 40; Joannes Mauropus, Etymologica nominum 105-106 (Ὁ δ’ ἐνιαυτὸς αὐτὸς ἐμμόνως ἔνι | τὸ πᾶν ἐν αὑτῷ τοῦ χρόνου περιστρέφων); Etym. Gudianum, epsilon, p. 476; Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 342; Etym. Symeonis, epsilon 439; Michael Glycas, Annales p. 48.
Bibliography
On the etymology of ἐνιαυτός, see C. Le Feuvre, "αὖτις δὲ περιπλομένου ἐνιαυτοῦ (Hesiod, Op. 386): on the formation of ἐνιαυτός", in D. Gunkel, S. Jamison, A. Mercado, K. Yoshida (eds), Vina diem celebrent: Studies in Linguistics and Philology in Honor of Brent Vine, Ann Arbor 2018
Comment
This etymology, widely found in Antiquity, is not by Plato himself. It relies on a minimal phonetic manipulation applied to a prepositional phrase "in itself" (the [e] is change into [i]). Other sources, more detailed, explain that the full year ἐνιαυτός contains in itself all four seasons (see Parallels)