Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

λόχιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λόχιος λόχιᾱ λόχιον

Structure: λοχι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or belonging to childbirth
  2. childbirth

Examples

  • ἐξ ἀρχᾶσ λόχιαι στερρὰν παιδείαν Μοῖραι ξυντείνουσιν θεαί, τᾷ μναστευθείσᾳ ’ξ Ἑλλάνων, ἃν πρωτόγονον θάλοσ ἐν θαλάμοισ Λήδασ ἁ τλάμων κούρα σφάγιον πατρῴᾳ λώβᾳ καὶ θῦμ’ οὐκ εὐγάθητον ἔτεκεν, ἔτρεφεν εὐκταίαν· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, anapests 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. of or belonging to childbirth

  2. childbirth

Related

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

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