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λοχεῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λοχεῖος λοχεῖη λοχεῖον

Structure: λοχει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = lo/xios, loxei=a (sub. xwri/a)

Sense

  1. the place of childbirth

Examples

  • φέρε <δ’ αὐτά> νιν ἀπὸ δειράδοσ εἰναλίασ, λοχεῖα κλεινὰ λιποῦσα μά‐ τηρ, τὰν ἀστάκτων ὑδάτων βακχεύουσαν Διονύ‐ σῳ Παρνάσιον κορυφάν· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, strophe 12)
  • εἶτα Λητοῦσ ἐγίγνετο λοχεία καὶ Ἀπόλλωνοσ γοναὶ καὶ Κορωνίδοσ γάμοσ καὶ Ἀσκληπιὸσ ἐτίκτετο. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 38:7)
  • πεμφθεῖσα γὰρ ὡσ ἔρια ὠνήσαιτό μοι ἐπὶ τὴν γαστέρα καὶ εὔξαιτο τῇ Λοχείᾳ ὡσ ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ, Λεσβίαν ἔφη ἐντυχοῦσαν αὐτῇ . (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 3:5)
  • ἐνταῦθα γὰρ μυθεύουσι τὴν λοχείαν καὶ τὴν τροφὸν τὴν Ὀρτυγίαν καὶ τὸ ἄδυτον ἐν ᾧ ἡ λοχεία, καὶ τὴν πλησίον ἐλαίαν, ᾗ πρῶτον ἐπαναπαύσασθαί φασι τὴν θεὸν ἀπολυθεῖσαν τῶν ὠδίνων. (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 1 34:13)

Synonyms

  1. the place of childbirth

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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