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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

  • ἢ ὅτι πέντε δεῖσθαι θεῶν τοὺσ γαμοῦντασ οἰόνται, Διὸσ τελείου καὶ Ἥρασ τελείασ καὶ Ἀφροδίτησ καὶ Πειθοῦσ, ἐπὶ πᾶσι δ’ Ἀρτέμιδοσ, ἣν ταῖσ λοχείαισ καὶ ταῖσ ὠδῖσιν αἱ γυναῖκεσ ἐπικαλοῦνται; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 2 2:2)
  • καὶ Λουκῖναν Ἥραν καλοῦσιν οἱο͂ν φωτεινὴν ἢ φωτίζουσαν καὶ νομίζουσιν ἐν ταῖσ λοχείαισ καὶ ὠδῖσι βοηθεῖν, ὥσπερ καὶ τὴν σελήνην, διὰ κυάνεον πόλον ἄστρων διὰ τ’ ὠκυτόκοιο σελάνασ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 77 1:5)
  • καὶ Ἀφροδίτησ καὶ Πειθοῦσ, ἐπὶ πᾶσι δ’ Ἀρτέμιδοσ, ἣν ταῖσ λοχείαισ καὶ ταῖσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 2 5:2)
  • ἤδη καλλιπέτηλον ἐπ’ εὐκάρποισι λοχείαισ λήιον ἐκ ῥοδέων ἀνθοφορεῖ καλύκων ἤδη ἐπ’ ἀκρεμόνεσσιν ἰσοζυγέων κυπαρίσσων μουσομανὴσ τέττιξ θέλγει ἀμαλλοδέτην· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 10, chapter 161)

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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